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Article: Persuasion strategies for physician executives: influencing subordinates. (part 2)(physician communication styles study)
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- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1991
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Persuasion Strategies for Physician Executives: Part II Influencing Subordinates
A number of writers have pointed to the increase during the 1980s of physicians moving into the managerial ranks of health care organizations. [1-6] This rise in the number of physician executives (also termed in the literature as physician managers, physician administrators, and physician CEOs) reversed a decade of decline in physicians' occupying managerial positions. For example, in 1982 only 207 hospitals had physician-CEOs, compared with 813 in 1972. [7] However, Oberman reports that by 1985 that number rebounded to 241.
Another indication of the growing number of physician ...