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...policy’s supporters said that its implementation may reduce malpractice fees by fostering increased trust between doctor and patient. However, no conclusive studies have been conducted...
...Patients aren’t stupid, and you know when something has gone wrong, usually, and while there are always patients that will sue because of perceived revenge or greed, mostly what people want is an acknowledgement that something is going on,” said Mary Dana Gershanoff, co-chair of the Adult Patient & Family Advisory Council at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who is representing patients for Leape’s group...
Gary Jernegan, co-chair of the Pediatric Patient & Family Advisory Council at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and another patient representative for Leape’s initiative, became involved at Dana Farber when his daughter—now 11, then two and a half—was diagnosed with cancer...
Surprising support for that work came earlier this month when researchers at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic reported that 11 Parkinson's disease patients being treated with dopamine-enhancing medications began gambling compulsively; one patient eventually lost $100,000. Six of the 11 also began engaging in compulsive eating, drinking, spending or sex. Only when the dopamine was discontinued did the patients return to normal...
...doctor in China and you want to alienate your patient as quickly as possible, there's one simple way: deny him antibiotics. "Patients often say they want antibiotics even when they don't need them, and then they get angry at the doctors when they try to explain why the drugs won't help," says Dr. Tong Zhaohui, vice director of the respiratory department at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital. To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better...