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Emergency Medical Services , Terrorism , Aircraft , Emergency Service, Hospital , Humans , New York CityABSTRACT
Most US medical schools have adopted programmes of affirmative action but these have not been completely successful in increasing diversity. There have been some law suits against medical schools brought by rejected students claiming reverse discrimination. Most minority groups are experiencing a downturn in representation in medicine. The movement to humanize medicine through widening entrance criteria has faded away.
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Cultural Diversity , Education, Medical , Ethnicity , School Admission Criteria/trends , Schools, Medical/legislation & jurisprudence , Students, Medical , Humans , Prejudice , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
Labor unions that represent health care workers encounter unique circumstances. This study focuses on 1199--the largest health care workers' union in the United States, based in New York City--and describes how the union and its National Benefit Fund have structured a managed indemnity health insurance program that provides extensive benefits for its members. The authors detail the workings of the National Benefit Fund and the ways in which it can improve the health care of its members through its union structure. The Fund represents a model for improving the provision of health care to Americans.
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Health Personnel/economics , Labor Unions/organization & administration , Preferred Provider Organizations/organization & administration , Community Participation , Continuity of Patient Care , Cost Control , Employment/trends , Health Care Costs/trends , Health Promotion , Humans , Income/trends , Labor Unions/trends , New York City , Organizations, Nonprofit , Politics , Preferred Provider Organizations/economics , Preventive Health Services , United StatesSubject(s)
Child Health Services/economics , Insurance Coverage/legislation & jurisprudence , Medical Assistance/legislation & jurisprudence , State Health Plans/economics , Child , Humans , Medical Assistance/statistics & numerical data , Program Evaluation , State Health Plans/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesSubject(s)
Collective Bargaining/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Maintenance Organizations/legislation & jurisprudence , Physicians/legislation & jurisprudence , American Medical Association , Antitrust Laws , Fee Schedules/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Advocacy/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesABSTRACT
In the US, state medical licensing boards have the power to prevent sick doctors from practising if they do not undergo treatment. Every state has a programme for impaired doctors, most including a two-week hospital stay involving intensive psychotherapy. Research on recovery is limited, but some studies have found recovery rates of 75 per cent.
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Licensure, Medical , Occupational Health Services , Physician Impairment , Substance-Related Disorders/rehabilitation , Alcoholism/rehabilitation , Humans , Internship and Residency , Liability, Legal , Mental Disorders/rehabilitation , National Practitioner Data Bank , Societies, Medical , United StatesSubject(s)
Health Care Reform , Medicare/economics , Aged , Drug Costs , Health Maintenance Organizations/economics , Humans , Insurance Benefits , Medicare/trends , Politics , United StatesSubject(s)
Group Practice, Prepaid/organization & administration , Health Maintenance Organizations/organization & administration , Practice Management/economics , Bankruptcy , Group Practice, Prepaid/economics , Health Maintenance Organizations/economics , New Jersey , State Health Plans , United StatesABSTRACT
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services. Some managed care companies are considering e-mail advice services, with nurses responding to descriptions of patients' symptoms.
