Catchword: hamster care

Filed under: English, Health, Medical, Jargon

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Perhaps the purest examples of hamster care are in Canada and Germany. In these countries there is a fixed budget for all services provided by doctors and a standardised schedule of fixed fees. Doctors try to earn their target income by providing more and more services. But as the number of services provided by all doctors rises and exceeds set total budgets, so the fee for each service goes down. Like frantic hamsters the doctors run ever faster—but to no avail.

Article or document title:
“Hamster health care: time to stop running faster and redesign health care” (URL)

Author:
Richard Smith

Article, document, publication, web site:
British Medical Journal

Date of publication:
Dec. 23, 2000

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