Economic Review Medical Staff Behavior

Abstract

In the Circular Flow model, the term input market is popular, including the labor market needed by the business entity to produce services or goods. By referring to this model, doctors are one of the inputs for the hospital. In reality, there will be a market for doctors according to economic principles. If there is economically normal behavior, in principle, the greater the income or salary offered by the market, the more doctors will enter the market. Analysis of the medical labor market is crucial in hospital management. Various economic models of hospitals state that the role of medical staff (doctors) is dominant. This is understandable because the doctor, especially the specialist who determines the level of utilization and the level of hospital charges. Broadly speaking, doctors in the hospital are divided into three major groups, namely: (1) specialist groups who have great clinical ability and authority and have a strong influence on medical and paramedical staff; (2) general practitioner group who usually have more role as doctors in the admissions department; and (3) groups of doctors who serve as directors or structural staff of the hospital. The discussion in this section is more about specialist doctors.