http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2006/12/19/hospitals-and-physicians-repairing-the-rift/ The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2006/12/19/hospitals-and-physicians-repairing-the-rift/comment-page-1/#comment-299 RobertBurney Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:38:44 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2006/12/19/hospitals-and-physicians-repairing-the-rift/#comment-299 If the hospital is a for-profit entity and the physicians have an ownership interest, then the "extended staff" concept will work. Otherwise, the community physicians have no interest in improving a quasi-system of care that does not directly benefit them. If the hospital is a for-profit entity and the physicians have an ownership interest, then the “extended staff” concept will work. Otherwise, the community physicians have no interest in improving a quasi-system of care that does not directly benefit them.

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