{"id":3743,"date":"2022-10-16T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2022-10-16T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:34:17","slug":"as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"As Giant Hospitals Get Bigger, An Independent Doctor Feels the Pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent medical practices keep closing as doctors join behemoth hospital groups or leave the field. Research suggests that\u2019s bad news for patients. Studies repeatedly conclude that consolidation in the health care industry is driving up costs while showing no clear evidence of improved care&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/hospitals-independent-doctors-squeeze\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent medical practices keep closing as doctors join behemoth hospital groups or leave the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3743-as-giant-hospitals-get-bigger-an-independent-doctor-feels-the-pinch-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}