The Doctor-Patient Relationship and Health Care
Event Details
Medicine has grown highly specialized, raising concerns that excess specialization might increase costs and problems in care coordination, and compromise relationships between doctors and patients. New research explores whether care improves when physicians rearrange their practices to allow them to treat patients both in clinics and in hospitals, reducing coordination problems between inpatient and outpatient care and leveraging the potential of the doctor-patient relationship.
$20/person
$10/recent graduate (College alumni of the past 10 years and graduate alumni of the past five years)
Free for Class of 2015 UChicago alumni
Two complimentary registrations for members of the Chicago, Harper, Phoenix, and Medical and Biological Alumni Leadership Societies
Program
7:30 PM-8:00 PM: Registration and networking
8:00 PM-9:00 PM: Presentation and discusion
Speaker Profiles
David Meltzer, LAB’82, AM’87, PhD’92, MD’93 (Speaker)
http://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/faculty/david_meltzer
David Meltzer, LAB'82, AM'87, PhD'92, MD'93, is chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and the UChicago Urban Health Lab, and chair of the Committee on Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Chicago, where he is a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Economics and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis and the cost and quality of hospital care.
Questions
Joe Winegardner
773.702.7788