The Physician-Manager Alliance: Building the Healthy Health Care Organization - Hardcover

"The authors have written an important book, underscoring the necessity of cooperative and collaborative relationships between physicians and managers. Such partnerships of medicine and management, whose destinies are inextricably intertwined, are essential if organizations are to effectively and efficiently operate for the benefit of the people they serve." --Howard S. Zuckerman, professor, School of Health Administration and Policy, and director, Center for Health Management and Research, Arizona State College of Business

This work details an approach for a health-care organization which is designed to create a new dynamic for clinician-manager relations that will restore confidence in the health care system. The book shows how the alliance of managers and physicians can implement effective policies and procedures that will provide health care that is responsive to patient's needs, and is timely, considerate and technologically appropriate. The authors reveal how medicine is actually practiced in today's health care organizations, and offer guidance for needed improvements.