Doctors Try Surgical Strike for Health Reform

(Beijing) – Doctors and investors have formed more than 30 physician services groups over the past year, accelerating national health care reforms in ways with profound implications for hospitals and China's more than 2 million doctors.

Physician group supporters see the trend as an icebreaker for the so far slow-moving reform movement, whose progress since it began in 2009 has been partly hindered by hospital administrators cool to the idea of letting doctors practice independently.