All doctors are problem doctors

Are doctors risk takers?

OBJECTIVE Risk taking affects human behavior in general and decisions in medicine in particular. We used game theory to assess physicians' risk-taking tendencies. METHODS Physicians were recruited to the study by advertisement. It was explained that they would receive a sum of money for correct prediction of the flipping of a coin. They could try to sell their opportunity to flip the coin for...

Are doctors created equal ?

There is broad consensus among policy makers and consumer groups that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the quality and costs of care delivered. In recent years several government-led transparency initiatives have focused on healthcare institutes like hospitals (Jha et al. 2005, Harris and Buntin 2008). Up to now patients still have very little means of discerning the quality of p...

Doctors and witchdoctors: which doctors are which? I.

How many doctors are enough?

Why are Quebec's doctors leaving?

T Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently reported that Quebec shows a net loss in the interprovincial migration of physicians, and this poor performance is compounded by the departure of physicians to other countries. In all, 653 doctors have left Quebec in the past 5 years. Their average age was 40.8 years, so they were at the peak of their productivity. Why are they leaving...