title: Join the crowd. Moving from rugged individualists to collaborating group members.
abstract: The influences of managed care, regulation and increased public demands have changed the way physicians manage patients and themselves. Physicians are trading autonomy for income security and negotiating strength. They and their boards must re-examine their governance roles and responsibilities. Today, physician followers play as important a role as the peers who lead them.
authors.affiliation: Cranley Surgical Associates Inc., Cincinnati, USA. kep@cranleysurgical.com
authors.forename: Karen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Palatchi
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010559:Personnel Management; D008486:Physician Executives; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D014481:United States