Author Timothy Hoff Discusses His Latest Work: "Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail - and Value Based Health" (March 14th)

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During this 29-minute interview, Professor Timothy Hoff discusses moreover what market factors explain or are driving the degradation of the therapeutic relationship between the physician and the patient, or what he terms the doctor-patient dyad, these include the "retailing" of medicine, whether "next in line" retail medicine, where we've traded relational trust for calculative trust, is economically rationale, the (negative) effect it is having on physicians and possible solutions to save the physician-patient relationship and raise care delivery expectations. 

Professor Timothy Hoff is Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.  He is also a Visiting Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Green-Templeton College and a Visiting Scholar at the Said Business School, Oxford University.  Prior to his academic career, Dr. Hoff worked for a decade as a primary care practice administrator and as a healthcare consultant.  His research has been published in Pediatrics, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Perspectives, Health Affairs and The Milbank Quarterly.   His research has received rewards from the American Sociological Association, Academy of Management, and the Society for Applied Anthropology.  His previous work, Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Work in the 21st Century earned an Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice Magazine in 2010.  He is also co-editor of the 2016 reference volume on transformation in the health professions workforce, it's titled, The Healthcare Professional Workforce also published by Oxford University Press.  Professor Hoff received his undergraduate degree in business administration and his Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the University of Albany.  

For information on Next In Line go to: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/next-in-line-9780190626341?cc=us&lang=en&.

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