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Revolution in Practice Management: A New Kind of Drudgery
David M. Moore, MD
Bakersfield, Calif
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(3):241.
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I read with interest the article by Ramsey1 in the September issue of the ARCHIVES on the coming revolution in practice management. Ramsey describes outcomes management technology, medical informatics, and quality management as the technologies that will "... liberate those physicians who apply them from much of the drudgery of practice today" and provide them with tools that will empower them to improve their performance. While I welcome the information Ramsey provides on the direction of practice management and the "emerging health care system," I find his enthusiasm for it disturbing and unrealistic. I believe that the kind of health care system he describes cannot bring liberation or empowerment to anyone but a very few at the highest reaches of the new management for this system.
Ramsey looks forward to a less hierarchical system in medicine in which patients take a more active role in decision making and physicians practice
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