Anything but academic.
Even as academic medical centers accommodate themselves to the highly competitive--not to mention combative--world of managed health care, they're struggling to redefine their role before it gets redefined for them. "Academic institutions were never designed for managed care," one expert says. The question is, can they redesign themselves while there's still time?
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