Costs of Care…and Coercion?
The following anecdote is written by Dr. John Schumann, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. His story was a finalist in the 2011 Costs of Care Contest, and will be featured on American Public Media’s Marketplace. [All names and identifying features of characters in this story have been changed.] Nora, a third year medical student, came to me in moral distress. Ms. DiFazio, one of the hospitalized patients on her Internal Medicine rotation, was frightened to undergo an invasive (and expensive) medical procedure: cardiac catheterization. The first year doctor...
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The following story is from Dr. John Henning Schumann, a primary care doctor at the University of Chicago. He blogs @http://glasshospital.com A thirtysomething friend of mine, let’s call her Sally, started running last year in an effort to get in better shape. As often happens in these scenarios, Sally developed some foot pain. So she went to a “foot” doctor (I’m not sure whether she meant a podiatrist or an orthopedic surgeon specializing in feet). Reasonably enough, the doctor ordered an x-ray of her foot. The official reading showed no fracture, but there was a...
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