Abstract

The most important benefit of a socialized health care system is the elimination of the threat of personal financial ruin to pay for medical care. Serious disadvantages of a socialized health care system, particularly in a university hospital setting, include restricted financial resources for education and patient care, limited working facilities, and loss of physician-directed decision making in planning and prioritizing. This article describes how a group practice model has supported clinical and academic activities within the faculty of medicine of our university and offers this model as a possible template for other surgical and medical disciplines working in an academic socialized environment.

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Authors

Duranceau A, Martin J, Liberman M, Ferraro P

Institution

Department of Surgery, l’Université de Montréal, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada. andre.duranceau@umontreal.ca

Source

Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 147:7 2012 Jul pg 668-73

MeSH

Academic Medical Centers
Biomedical Research
Faculty, Medical
Foundations
General Surgery
Group Practice
Humans
Organizational Case Studies
Publishing
Quality of Health Care
Quebec
Societies, Medical
State Medicine
Surgery Department, Hospital

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22802065