title: The physician executive: role in the adaptation of American medicine.
abstract: In the arena of managed care and large delivery systems, professional associations find it increasingly difficult to influence the environments in which their members practice. Physician executives appear likely to play key roles in the response of medicine to change. This article discusses how an analysis of the work of physicians involved in management fails to yield a clear analytic distinction between physicians engaged in management and the behavior of others who have managerial responsibility.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Administration and Policy, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Schneller
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Greenwald
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ott
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D010819:Physician's Role; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States