Is there a doctor in the house? : market signals and tomorrow's supply of doctors / Richard M. Scheffler.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index.

Pt.1. Market power and the doctor supply. The supply cycle of doctors -- Managed care redistributes market power -- Physician incomes : following the money -- Who are the doctors, and where are they? -- Reshaping the workforce : nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- Doctor supply forecasts : more or less the "right" number of doctors in a better health care system -- Pt.2. Conversations with the experts. Toward tiered high-performance networks / Alain C. Enthoven -- Primary care and the medical home / Karen Davis -- Rethinking the financing of GME / Gail Wilensky -- What the market signals are saying / Mark V. Pauly -- Residents, payment, and the global market / Joseph P. Newhouse -- Physician income and the potential of P4P / Uwe E. Reinhardt -- Measuring performance: how and why / Peter R. Carroll -- Paying for Primary care in an outmoded system / Jordan J. Cohen -- Advanced-practice clinicians challenge traditional model / Tracey O. Fremd

Chronic care models and turf battles / Gary Gitnick -- Free medical education- with strings / Donald Goldmann -- Understanding the real cost of medical education / Atul Grover -- Primary care: how much does money matter? / Kevin Grumbach -- A regional approach to health disparities / Risa Lavizzo-Mourey -- A short history of medical education and diversity / Philip R. Lee -- Too many doctors, too little efficiency / Arnold Milstein -- Taking responsibility for generating America's doctors / Fitzhugh Mullan -- We expect too much from physicians / Edward O'Neil -- The integrated system: paying for primary care / Robert Pearl -- The declining role of government: it's time to prepare / Philip A. Pizzo -- Tomorrow's doctors want something different / Edward D. Salsberg -- The medical home and other ways to save primary care / Steven Schroeder -- External reporting and other keys to P4P / Stephen M. Shortell -- What the business model and the military model know / Mark D. Smith -- More doctors does not equal better outcomes / John E. Wennberg -- Doctors as team players / William J. Barcellona -- Doctors: stop being depressed and redesign the system / Ian Morrison.