title: The physician as worker: what it means and why now?
abstract: Health care researchers and managers have viewed physicians traditionally through three major lenses, that is, as professionals, suppliers, and caregivers. This article makes a case for another lens, that of the physician as worker. The worker perspective complements these existing perspectives, serves as a generative metaphor in raising new assumptions and questions about physicians, and provides physicians with a dimensionality necessary because of increasing diversity within and external to the medical profession.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, Rensselaer, New York, USA.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Hoff
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001519:Behavior; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006123:Group Practice; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010819:Physician's Role; D010822:Physicians, Women; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D014481:United States