MORE CONTRACT SURGEONS

Make Surgeons’ Position More Comfortable

Paying surgeons less has cost more.

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 mandated reductions in physician reimbursement. This reduction in payments could be envisioned to limit expenditures on 2 counts: first, individual fees would be lower, producing inherent savings. Furthermore, reducing fees should depress the incentive to work, thereby generating additional savings from reduced output. A rival point of view holds that lower fees ...

Surgeons experience more ergonomic stress in the OR.

Contract Theory and Theories of Contract Regulation

This Essay considers the substantive and institutional aspects of an economic theory of contract regulation. It lists the various functions that analysts have assigned to contract regulation and briefly discusses the substantive wisdom and institutional feasibility of performing those functions. The essay tentatively concludes that the state should enforce contracts, supply vocabularies that ar...

Surgeons agree more on treatment recommendations than on classification of proximal humeral fractures

BACKGROUND Orthopaedic surgeons disagree considerably when classifying fractures of the proximal humerus. However, the clinical implications of low observer agreement remain unclear. The purpose of the study was to compare the agreement on Neer classification with the agreement on treatment recommendations. METHODS We conducted a multi-centre observer-study. Five experienced shoulder surgeons...