Negotiating to control care. Doctors' unions.
With medicine under siege, many physicians no longer turn up their noses at unions. The number of doctors in unions remains small, but it is growing as third parties exert more control over the practice of medicine. Fee-for-service physicians still face antitrust barriers to joining, but even the lawsuit-conscious AMA is devising ways to help them negotiate.
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