TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - The Medical Profession
A1  - Burns, Lawton Robert
PY  - 2021
T2  - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers
AB  - Earlier  chapters  depict  the  centrality  of  physicians  in  the  US  healthcare  ecosystem.  There  are  many  reasons  for  ascribing  them  this  central  role.  Put  simply,  physicians  control  85%  to  90%  of  all  personal  healthcare  spending,  either  directly  (through  their  professional  incomes)  or  indirectly  (through  their  orders  and  oversight  of  others).1  How  do  they  exercise  such  discretion?  Physicians  have  a  monopoly  or  virtual  monopoly  over  most  major  decisions  that  drive  healthcare  spending.  These  decisions  include:  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180252914
ER  -