Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R F Pagano.
The Fallon Clinic Pediatric Department initiated a unique pre-operative teaching program in the HMO ambulatory setting for children undergoing elective surgery. The new program is based upon a pre-surgery appointment scheduled 1 week before elective surgery. At this visit, the patient completes required laboratory and other pre-operative testing and a physical examination is performed by the child's pediatrician.
Increasingly, physicians, in both primary care and specialties, are gathering together into partnerships, single or multispecialty group practices, corporations, and HMOs. Many of physicians are becoming salaried employees of these organizations. As this trend increases, the physician, once pictured as an autonomous entrepreneur and decision-maker, is giving way to the salaried physician-employee, subject to the management and hierarchical structure of organizations. In the first of two articles, the author lays the background for the need for job satisfaction surveys of salaried physicians.