The Article in Brief

Doctors’ values may be shifting as a younger generation of doctors comes to the fore, according to a survey of 372 doctors from 11 managed care organizations. The researchers found that a strong sense of responsibility to individual patients is less common among younger doctors and those who practice in staff-model managed care organizations (compared with those who practice in network-model managed care organizations). They also found that doctors with a strong sense of responsibility to individual patients were significantly more likely to report being satisfied with the quality of care they provide and with their ability to serve the needs of their patients.