| About the Author | p. v |
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Physician Supply and Demand-A National View | p. 1 |
| Changing Sentiments on the Policy Front | p. 4 |
| Further Evidence of Shortages Emerges | p. 6 |
| Effect of Shortages on Hospitals and Systems | p. 9 |
| Geographic Maldistribution | p. 17 |
| Varied Projections of Supply and Demand to 2020 | p. 24 |
| Physician Supply and Demand-A Community Perspective | p. 29 |
| Defining and Describing the Community to Be Served | p. 30 |
| Determining Physician Supply in the Community | p. 49 |
| Estimating the Current Number of Clinical FTEs | p. 52 |
| Community Physician Need-By the Numbers | p. 61 |
| Developing an Inventory of Community Physicians | p. 63 |
| Three Approaches for Determining Physician Need | p. 66 |
| Five Sets of Benchmark Physician-to-Population Ratios | p. 74 |
| Summary of Process for Establishing Current Community Need | p. 95 |
| Estimating Future Community Need | p. 97 |
| How Many Physicians Make a Health System? | p. 103 |
| Calculating Effective Service Population | p. 104 |
| Determining Primary Care Need by Subarea | p. 108 |
| Accounting for Hospitalists | p. 111 |
| Determining Need for Subspecialists | p. 115 |
| Using Activity Levels to Calculate Physician FTEs | p. 119 |
| Projecting Future Physician Need and Supply | p. 121 |
| Hospital-Physician Relationships: New Approaches to New Challenges | p. 125 |
| Hospital-Physician Alignment Research | p. 126 |
| Five Guidelines for Building and Maintaining Hospital-Physician Relationships | p. 130 |
| Ten Strategies for Promoting Physician-Hospital Alignment | p. 132 |
| Recruitment Strategies | p. 151 |
| Situation-Specific Recruitment Strategies | p. 154 |
| Looking Ahead | p. 164 |
| Planning for an Uncertain Future | p. 167 |
| Five Major Initiatives Affecting Hospitals and Physicians | p. 171 |
| Effects of Health System Reform on Physicians | p. 173 |
| Actions to Build and Maintain a Strong Medical Staff | p. 175 |
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