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	Institution: CLOCKSS  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 3 No. 3, March 1994   Archives  • Online Features Special Articles  This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal Health System Reform A Provider or a Patient Perspective? David N. Mirvis, MD Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(3):241-245. Abstract Most important issues can be viewed from many different perspectives. In civil law, the plaintiff and the defendant present the same event from two vantage points and the outcome will be very different depending on which view is adopted by the court. The same is true for health care. Physicians (or groups of physicians) may have one view, other providers a second view, hospitals a third view, insurance companies a fourth view, and patients a fifth view. While the issue being deliberated is the same, the arguments and the proposed solutions may be widely disparate. Author Affiliations From the Prevention Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis. HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | PHYSICIAN JOBS | HELP CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP   © 1994 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.