Interesting article. In a society meant to be guided by information drawn on
evidence based scientific principles I think we too often forget our
heritage. Many patients might not own up to an understanding of illness
based on divine retribution, but these powerful undercurrents still pervade
ours and many cultures. If the illness is deserved, it follows that the more
log suffering an ordeal the cure, the more likely it is to be effective. In
this context the doctor becomes accepted as a necessary evil.
"Thanks Doc ... you really hurt me!"
Perhaps this would even out the bias he worries about in the patient
satisfaction questionnaires (-:
Laurie
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Subject: Patient satisfaction surveys
This article - from the NY Times - was posted in a comment on EHI.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6vkonaw
The author is absolutely right: but no politician worth their salt would
either read it or agree.
Mary Hawking
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
don't forget patients like Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/whats-holding-fred-back/
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