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63% of Physicians are "Very Enthusiastic" about "Limiting Corporate Influence on Physician Behavior," but Will Anyone Notice?

Posted by | 10:24 AM
On Health Care Renewal , we have noted how the direct care of patients in the US is increasingly in the hands of large corporations, often f...

Shut Up and Sell - the Corporate Physician's New Motto?

Posted by | 9:20 AM
Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...

Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"

Posted by | 2:40 PM
Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institut...

GUEST BLOG - What Can Doctors Do to Combat Business Malfeasance in Health Care?

Posted by | 8:22 AM
Dr Gene Dorio is a an internist and geriatrician in California, described in the Los Angeles Times as an "old school physician." ...

Corporate Medicine Marches On - Putting Revenue Ahead of Patients

Posted by | 1:12 PM
The ongoing transformation of physicians from independent professionals to corporate employees has attracted considerable recent media atten...

The Rise of the Corporate Physician, and the "Metastasis of Big Corporations"

Posted by | 9:38 AM
Public discussion has raised more questions over the last few months about physicians taking care of patients as corporate employees.  More ...

Paging Doctor EBDITA - How Private Equity May Push Hospitals to Put Revenue Ahead of Patient Care

Posted by | 11:33 AM
Issues raised by the increasing influence of private equity firms in the direct care of patients were illuminated by a series of articles a...

Private Equity, Obfuscatory Advertising, and Making Health Care a Commodity: Lessons from Cerberus Capital Management

Posted by | 9:36 AM
The use of advertising by Steward Health Care, currently a regional hospital system here in New England, continues to provide lessons about ...