Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Human Resources
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human capital
Languages : en
Pages : 1674
Book Description
Drug Regulation Reform Act of 1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Medicine, Money, and Morals
Author: Marc A. RodwinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198024266
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Marc A. Rodwin draws on his own experience as a health lawyer--and his research in health ethics, law, and policy--to reveal how financial conflicts of interest can and do negatively affect the quality of patient care. He shows that the problem has become worse over the last century and provides many actual examples of how doctors' decisions are influenced by financial considerations. We learn how two California physicians, for example, resumed referrals to Pasadena General Hospital only after the hospital started paying $70 per patient (their referrals grew from 14 in one month to 82 in the next). As Rodwin writes, incentives such as this can inhibit a doctor from taking action when a hospital fails to provide proper service, and may also lead to the unnecessary hospitalization of patients. We also learn of a Wyeth-Ayerst Labs promotion in which physicians who started patients on INDERAL (a drug for high blood pressure, angina, and migraines) received 1000 mileage points on American Airlines for each patient (studies show that promotions such as this have a direct effect on a doctor's choice of drug). Rodwin reveals why the medical community has failed to regulate conflicts of interest: peer review has little authority, state licensing boards are usually ignorant of abuses, and the AMA code of ethics has historically been recommended rather than required. He examines what can be learned from the way society has coped with the conflicts of interest of other professionals --lawyers, government officials, and businessmen--all of which are held to higher standards of accountability than doctors. And he recommends that efforts be made to prohibit and regulate certain kinds of activity (such as kickbacks and self-referrals), to monitor and regulate conduct, and to provide penalties for improper conduct. Our failure to face physicians' conflicts of interest has distorted the way medicine is practiced, compromised the loyalty of doctors to patients, and harmed society, the integrity of the medical profession, and patients. For those concerned with the quality of health care or medical ethics, Medicine, Money and Morals is a provocative look into the current health care crisis and a powerful prescription for change.
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
CIS/annual
Author: Congressional Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Current Bibliography of Epidemiology
Author: Cumulated Index Medicus
Author: Veterans Administration Publications Index
Author: United States. Veterans Administration. Central OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description