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cord-008596-zhk82cor	Watts, Clark	Erosion of physician autonomy and public respect for the profession()	2008-07-09		.txt	text/plain	3900	193	52	The questions are "what happened?" and "why review this topic now?" In inverse order, I believe after the present presidential campaign, we will see major efforts to revise the structure of the US health care system, and the changes advocated will have significant impacts on physicians and the way they practice [4] . Belatedly, physicians began organizing their practices around the group model to overcome these concerns; belatedly, because the managed care model they were fighting began to lose acceptance by the public as it did not hold down costs, and its proactive policies regarding physician decision making were offensive to patients [15] . These changes in the US health care system, which have restricted physician autonomy, have also adversely affected the public's respect for the medical profession for one major reason.	./cache/cord-008596-zhk82cor.txt	./txt/cord-008596-zhk82cor.txt