Antitrust Enforcement in the Medical Services Industry: What Does It All Mean?

Antitrust enforcement in the medical services industry: what does it all mean?

Before 1975, federal antitrust authorities neglected the health care sector, thereby allowing the entrenchment of many anticompetitive practices and institutions that seemed not only "natural," but also beneficial to the quality and professionalism of doctor-patient relations. While antitrust enforcement shares the usual physician preference for free enterprise, prosecutorial discretion is ofte...

What does it all mean?

Being a departmental head – what does it mean? Emphasizing the salience and shades in medical academia

Dear Editor, When an academician or clinician assumes the chair of department, multiple responsibilities dawn upon the chair that requires appropriate analysis and effective decision-making skills. Head of the department is uniquely poised to translate the organisational goals into the collective performance of the departmental members. Headship is an iterative process which necessitates ...

What does it all mean to you?

Nearly 20 years ago, I introduced a special series of articles for Trends in Neurosciences (5:295, 1982) that sought to illustrate some of the then-latest developments in molecular neuroscience. That was the time when neuroscientists were beginning to borrow heavily from the nascent field of molecular genetics, just as we had previously borrowed flagrantly from the previously powerful fields of...

Discussion: what does it all mean?

Offsetting the current tendency toward "life-course reductionism," insights from these papers illustrate a broader ("aging and society") paradigm--one that includes the life-course perspective, but also complements it with deeper understanding of the dialectical interplay between changes in lives and changes in the surrounding social structures.