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There's a fever in healthcare called physician acquisition
Author(s) -
Dennis Johnnye L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.21086
Subject(s) - wife , health care , psychology , medicine , political science , law
Some of you may remember the Donna Reed television show from the early 1960s. Donna played wife (and sometimes nurse) to her TV husband, Dr. Alex Stone. He was a pediatrician whose office was nearby, enabling Dr. Stone to come home for lunch. For those of you too young to know or remember this television program, Dr. Stone's practice of medicine was seemingly uncomplicated, and discussion at the dinner table was never centered on concerns of the practice. It is highly unlikely the same can be said for today's practicing physicians.