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Are Pay-for-Performance Programs a Threat to Medical Professionalism?
TO THE EDITOR:
Snyder and Neubauer (1) correctly depict pay-for-performance as a possible threat to professionalism in medicine. The contradiction between professionalism and pay-for-performance is, however, more serious than the authors acknowledge.
The core concept of professionalism is the physician's willingness to put self-interest …
