CAS SO 215 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Managed Care, Disease Mongering, Visiting Hours
31 Dec 2016
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Webmd challenge the doctor for more aggressive screening: evidence based medicine o challenges the application of scientific expertise o people discovered within different geographies of the us you"ll get various standards of care or different diagnoses o standardization. Doctors used to feel confident in what they want to do for their patients, but with standardization the doctor has less of a right for their own decision making o more clarity for the patient to know exactly what"s happening: big pharma o questions professional independence o patient awareness of drugs but not aware of their medical condition butttttttttt . the profession has found sources of strength in the three factors that undermine its dominance. Negative effects on patient care: may lead to overtreatment patient wants all the procedures to be done so that they"re healthy, disease mongering o expanding boundaries of disease categories to treat larger number of people o ex.
