"is an impatient industry, especially when Wall Street is involved. Healthcare professionals must be sure that aggressive strategies to cut costs and enhance short-term profits do not harm patients. We face special challenges when new policies are implemented abruptly. For example, a managed care company in Wisconsin gave hospitals less than 2 months’ notice in 1994 that they would routinely authorize just 5 days of hospitalization for patients undergoing CABG despite the fact that fewer than 9% of patients in the state were achieving this target at the time."
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W. Bruce Fye
(born 1946 in ) is an American , , award-winning writer, and emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the . He was elected in 1978 a Fellow of the (ACC).
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