Physician Payment Reform--an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Overview

Journal West J Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1990 Mar 1

PMID 2185598

Citations 1

Authors

P R LEE

Affiliations

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Abstract

These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, and Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine. Requests for reprints should be sent to the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143.

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