Recently Medical Economics http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com * noted: “Today’s physicians are subject to numerous competing pressures, rooted in both time and money, perhaps to an extent they’ve never experienced before. Medical Economics consulted doctors and healthcare experts to explore the push-pull of four ethical, financial, and logistical dilemmas that doctors must navigate in 2014–and beyond.”
Ordering marginal or unneccesary tests
Pressures to refer patients within physician’s health system
Do physicians have an ethical responsibility to treat Medicaid and ACA patients?
Should doctors give patients what they want?
* to read the full Medical Economics article “4 ethical dilemmas facing physicians” by Charlotte Huff, highlight and click on open hyperlink http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/news/4-ethical-dilemmas-facing-physicians?page=0,0
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Jonathan M. Metsch, Dr.P.H., is Clinical Professor, Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Adjunct Professor, Baruch College ( C.U.N.Y.), Rutgers School of Public Health, and Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration
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