Interview

LISTEN NOW: Bob Wachter discusses ACOs, managed care, and his new book


 

Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, talks about Accountable Care Organizations, trends in managed care, his new book, and why hospitalists need to think, at times, like Machiavelli.

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