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Frontline: Dr Solomon's Dilemma
Internist Martin Solomon and other physicians at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital are followed as they weigh cost vs. care, patient by patient. The reason: their physician-run health-care network lost $100-million in 1999, and the pressures for “operational discipline” (as the network's CEO puts it) are relentless. Many patients know what's going on, and that development, says correspondent Hedrick Smith, “is eroding the precious bond of trust between doctors and patients.”
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Episode number: 18x12 Airdate: Tuesday April 04th, 2000 Director: (Unknown)
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Recap
Dr. Solomon’s Dilemma presents the conflict that doctors having in treating patients while keeping the cost of helping them down. Hedrick Smith reports from Boston on Marty Solomon of St. Deacon’s Center .We look at an intensive care patients whose been in hospital for seven weeks. Solomon estimates the cost of treating the patient at a couple hundred costs. Right of the bat, Solomon explains the dilemma of treating patients who are running the cost of his hospital up. Smith says doctors are rebelling and fighting HMOS. In theory, they are supposed to give care back to patients. As Smith points out though that entails accepting the cost of the patient while keeping the cost of treating them down...Read the full recap
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