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Medical decisions are based primarily on financial profit, and patient outcome data is not required to determine which medicines are most profitable. The point
by VLM 4y ago
Medical decisions are based primarily on financial profit, and patient outcome data is not required to determine which medicines are most profitable.
The point of extensive documentation is shielding from the worst of malpractice lawsuits. The legal system is still of the legacy opinion that doctors have a responsibility to their patients as opposed to the more modern understanding of responsibility toward pharma company bottom lines, and all patients legally deserve the 100% successful participation trophy, so a documented decision with only 95% chance of success means insurance payouts about 5% of the time, unless its carefully documented it was all the patients fault or at least the MD could not have known the outcome in advance.
- throwaway894345 4y ago> patient outcome data is not required to determine which medicines are most profitable This is blatantly false. Pharma spends tons of money to buy this data for their armies of researchers in order to determine outcomes. There's an entire very lucrative industry (that I work in) which exists to source this data from hospitals and refine it for researchers. If the point of documentation was CYA, then you wouldn't need complicated systems like Epic to standardize the documentation and make it available for electronic processing (you would just have some paralegal pour over the records of the individual patient).