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>> patient preference > As a patient, I'm always suspicious when I see this. There are many practices in medicine that exist only because of patient perference
by fifteenforty 9y ago
>> patient preference
> As a patient, I'm always suspicious when I see this.
There are many practices in medicine that exist only because of patient perference and despite their harm.
I think this is because of ongoing poor health education amongst the general public, physicians who are worn out and choose their battles and that private health care systems (at least in Aus) reward practitioners who get good feedback from patients better than those who have the best health outcomes.
- Bartweiss 9y agoIn general this is true, but I would guess it's least true in hospitals? They have a lot of throughput and are generally over-burdened, so 'driving away' patients isn't much of a risk. Beyond that, a lot of their patients are there because it's the nearest hospital and aren't actually choosing where to go. At least anecdotally, my impression is that PCPs and clinics worry about satisfying patient demands (e.g. antibiotics for colds) to maintain revenue, while hospitals mostly worry about how to get more patients who can pay and fewer who can't.