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> Doctors should not be gatekeepers for diagnostics. Doctors mostly aren't gatekeepers for risk-free diagnostics, like a blood test for a vitamin deficiency. I
by smt88 2y ago
> Doctors should not be gatekeepers for diagnostics.
Doctors mostly aren't gatekeepers for risk-free diagnostics, like a blood test for a vitamin deficiency. Insurance companies are.
But for risky tests, doctors have a duty to "do no harm" and can't/shouldn't order something that they know causes an increase in all-cause mortality for their patients.
The concept is the same with antibiotics or anything else a patient might ask for without knowing the risks.
- ethbr1 2y ago> Doctors mostly aren't gatekeepers for risk-free diagnostics That's not entirely true. There are more than a few diagnostics in the US that the FDA explicitly discouraged companies from offering without physician referral. E.g. whole genome sequencing several years ago