Evolution of Physician Roles in Healthcare

The assignment explores the different roles played by physicians in healthcare practices, specifically highlighting their expanded and minimized roles. It discusses how the traditional roles of physicians have changed over the past decade due to new career options and technologies. The report provides examples of these roles in private practice, large group practices, specialist practices, and hospital settings.

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Abstract
For this assignment, a research has been conducted on different roles of physician that are played
by them in health care practices .this report helps in providing examples in the expanded and
minimized roles by providing examples on the role a hospital physician plays.
How have the traditional roles of physicians changed and evolved over the past 10 years?
The role of the physician has been changing every day, due to new and recent changes in the
career options (Colla, 2014). This issue helps the physician in exploring new roles in terms of
career opportunities.
Expanded and minimized roles
The expanded roles of practitioners help in making the primary care facility more affordable that
helps in getting the services easily by not waiting for the doctor.
Private Practice
In private practice, the physician learns a lot of new things, due to the arising of new illness and
new technologies (Johnson,2016). In the private practice, the physician involvement is much
more due to the management roles as well.
Large group Practice Roles
If the large group is practising together it results in treating the patient more affordable by having
multiple viewpoints for the same problem (Morhardt,2015)
Specialist practices
In terms of specialist practice, the treatment is done for one problem only and the specialists are
generally more paid due to the speciality in one field of study (Howland,2017).

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Hospital physician roles:
In a hospital, the role of a physician is to monitor the patient and provide treatment to each
patient (Flett,2016). In hospitals, the physicians have to make the record of all the treatments
that have been providing in hospital.
Conclusion
There are different roles a physician play in health care services, and it is of utmost importance
for a physician to be updated with the latest technology so that the best treatment will be
provided to the patient in terms of problem-solving.
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Flett, G. L., Hewitt, P. L., & Molnar, D. S. (2016). Perfectionism in health and illness from a
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