Assignment:
Write a two to three page paper taking into consideration the perspectives of three major players in health care delivery:
(1) the patient, (2) the doctor, and (3) the hospital.
Please address the following in writing your paper:
1. From the patient perspective:
• What do patients expect from medical treatment?
• What leads people to seek treatment?
• How does a patient decide where to go for treatment?
2. From the doctor's perspective:
• How does a physician expect to be paid?
• How does a physician decide what patients to treat?
• What threats exist today to a doctor's autonomy and authority?
3. From the hospital's perspective:
• How would a hospital prefer to relate to physicians on its staff?
• How has the relationship between hospitals and physicians changed over the past 50 years?
• What impact does the dominance of the nonprofit form of hospital have on the relationship to the physician?
• What do hospitals expect from patients?
• How does a hospital's duty to treat differ from the physician's?