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Editorial: The Physician Psychiatrist: 2000 and Beyond

Editorial: The Physician Psychiatrist: 2000 and Beyond Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000 The American Medical Association (AMA) has companies, none of this would have happened. In- done it again. While dancing about and formally stead, we joined them, hoping to ‘‘work from within,’’ avoiding the term ‘‘union’’ the AMA’s Board of and hoped to teach these companies what good medi- Trustees has embarrassed physicians with its vote to cine really is. How naı ¨ve! form a national collective bargaining unit for physi- Psychiatry in particular is one branch of medi- cians who are employed (i.e. not self-employed). This cine whose patients have suffered grievously by being de facto union now entitled ‘‘PRN’’ or ‘‘Physicians caught in the middle of this unnecessary altercation. for Responsible Negotiations’’ has been structured In attempting to lower costs, insurance companies by physicians who are frustrated by their loss of pro- have created ‘‘carve outs’’ which ‘‘manage’’ the psy- fessional autonomy and organizational and financial chiatric care of patients. Physicians should never have pressures put on them by the insurance companies allowed themselves to be manipulated into becoming via so-called ‘‘managed care’’ programs. providers for systems, which create unreasonable The AMA has indicated that there will be no http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Clinical Psychiatry Springer Journals

Editorial: The Physician Psychiatrist: 2000 and Beyond

Bornstein, Philipp
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry , Volume 12 (2) – Oct 8, 2004
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Editorial: The Physician Psychiatrist: 2000 and Beyond

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Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000 The American Medical Association (AMA) has companies, none of this would have happened. In- done it again. While dancing about and formally stead, we joined them, hoping to ‘‘work from within,’’ avoiding the term ‘‘union’’ the AMA’s Board of and hoped to teach these companies what good medi- Trustees has embarrassed physicians with its vote to cine really is. How naı ¨ve! form a...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2000 by American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology
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1040-1237
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1573-3238
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10.1023/A:1009083329358
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Abstract

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000 The American Medical Association (AMA) has companies, none of this would have happened. In- done it again. While dancing about and formally stead, we joined them, hoping to ‘‘work from within,’’ avoiding the term ‘‘union’’ the AMA’s Board of and hoped to teach these companies what good medi- Trustees has embarrassed physicians with its vote to cine really is. How naı ¨ve! form a national collective bargaining unit for physi- Psychiatry in particular is one branch of medi- cians who are employed (i.e. not self-employed). This cine whose patients have suffered grievously by being de facto union now entitled ‘‘PRN’’ or ‘‘Physicians caught in the middle of this unnecessary altercation. for Responsible Negotiations’’ has been structured In attempting to lower costs, insurance companies by physicians who are frustrated by their loss of pro- have created ‘‘carve outs’’ which ‘‘manage’’ the psy- fessional autonomy and organizational and financial chiatric care of patients. Physicians should never have pressures put on them by the insurance companies allowed themselves to be manipulated into becoming via so-called ‘‘managed care’’ programs. providers for systems, which create unreasonable The AMA has indicated that there will be no

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Published: Oct 8, 2004

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