Re:Patients Are Not Consumers
by logjam on Friday April 22, 2011 @03:03PM
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Amen, and the way our business-friendly politicians try to frame these debates is revealing.
Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients, on individual, community, and societal levels...regardless of the "profit-and-loss" of business entities.
I had an attending when I was in residency training who would absolutely blow his stack if any physician ever referred to themselves as a "provider", or a patient as a "client". It's a much different relationship.
Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients, on individual, community, and societal levels...regardless of the "profit-and-loss" of business entities.
I had an attending when I was in residency training who would absolutely blow his stack if any physician ever referred to themselves as a "provider", or a patient as a "client". It's a much different relationship.