| Abstract: | Health care organizations are being scrutinized by payers for the efficiency of their processes to render health care. Organizations must offer alternative avenues to satisfy health care needs that are less resource consuming and have a reasonable chance of success. This presents an enormous challenge to U.S. health care. In the past, while in training, physicians were conditioned to ignore costs in the provision of care. We cannot afford that behavior today. Physicians must be reeducated and their behavior reconditioned to alter the teachings at medical school and residency with respect to resource utilization. To be effective, this education and behavior modification must be done in a nonpunitive fashion. |
