So Long, Marcus Welby, M.D.: How Today's Health Care Is Suffocating Independent Physicians-and How Some Changed to Thrive - Paperback

by Steve Jacob (Author)

The circumstances under which America's physicians will do their jobs will change more in the next decade than they have in the past 50 years. The Physicians Foundation, based in Boston, has identified some of the most pressing issues facing U.S. doctors-the uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, where the nation will find the capacity to treat millions of newly insured patients, the continuously expanding administrative burden, the industry's relentless consolidation to gain market leverage and the forces nibbling away at practice autonomy. The book explores these issues in-depth. Veteran health journalist Steve Jacob draws on dozens of interviews and more than 500 published sources to cover these issues and describe how the landscape is changing for doctors.

Author Biography

Steve Jacob is founding editor of D Healthcare Daily, website that covers the business of health care in Dallas-Fort Worth, and author of the book Health Care in 2020: Where Uncertain Reform, Bad Habits, Too Few Doctors and Skyrocketing Costs Are Taking Us. He also is an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where he teaches health policy and health services management. He holds master's degrees in journalism, business administration and health policy.