Column: Physicians should not shy away from making recommendations
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
March 7, 2007
A Boston Globe column hails today's patient-centered decision making process in medicine, but warns that the movement away from physician-dominated decisions may have gone too far.
Instead, physicians should make recommendations for a patient's care, rather than providing options and little guidance in any direction. The writer, Marcia Angell, MD, gives several reasons for the shift, including patient wariness of physicians' financial interest in giving a recommendation and the push to see more patients in a given day.
Angell suggests patients press physicians for guidance when making tough decisions. To read the column, click here.
