Hospitals Suing Over Unpaid Medical Bills Hurts Our Patients
We make a promise to do good by our patients, but what does it mean to do harm? Should we include socioeconomic harm in this discussion?
We make a promise to do good by our patients, but what does it mean to do harm? Should we include socioeconomic harm in this discussion?
The premise underlying the executive order signed by President Trump on June 24, 2019, is that if patients were informed about what hospitals and providers are charging for their services, then they would be able to shop around for better deals.
Dr Marzouka discusses the fact that patients cannot shop around for a better deal when going to the emergency department and are almost never presented with the cost of care prior to receiving it.
When politicians attempt to make changes to health policy based on sentiments rather than on evidence-based conclusions, physicians often find themselves trying to meet unrealistic expectations.
In 2015, 1 in 20 adults in the United States experienced a diagnostic error every year; yet by the beginning of 2019, nothing had been done to improve the situation.
On the surface, a plan to get able-bodied individuals back to work in order to maintain their Medicaid benefits sounds reasonable — until it’s not.
Curbside consults are commonplace in both hospital and ambulatory settings.
A group of physicians has banded together to file a class-action lawsuit against the American Board of Internal Medicine and the organization’s monopolization on the process of board certification.
While technological breakthroughs have had positive effects in the corporate world, they have led to exacerbated physician burnout in the medical field.
Until universal access to healthcare is ensured as a human right, researchers must keep important ethical concerns in mind when designing future clinical trials.