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The report also offers an up-to-date review of how assistance by physicians in ending life is working in the “living laboratories” – the jurisdictions where it is legal.
In Switzerland, as well as in the US states of Oregon, Washington, and Montana, the law now permits physicians, on request, to supply a terminally ill patient with a prescription for a drug that will bring about a peaceful death.
The surgery is often carried out by tattooists and sometimes veterinarians, because qualified physicians and surgeons are reluctant to operate on healthy people.
Owing to their superior analytic power, machines are already providing more data upon which physicians base their diagnostic and treatment decisions.
By foregoing prices in allocating healthcare, the Dutch have taken the economic incentives for extending life away from the country's physicians.
In a so-called “mixed system,” patients would have more – and physicians less – power over life-and-death decisions.
Reversing the Medical Brain DrainGRENADA – With physicians already scarce worldwide, demand for foreign-born doctors in the United States and the United Kingdom is stretching developing and middle-income countries’ medical resources to the breaking point.
In the US, for example, the shortfall of physicians could grow to nearly 95,000 by 2025, equivalent to 43% of all doctors working today.
In Kenya, more than 50% of all doctors are now practicing overseas, leaving just 20 physicians per 100,000 in the population.
To be sure, there is nothing wrong with doctors spending time working and training overseas; on the contrary, practicing in a variety of health-care systems is critical for producing experienced, well-rounded physicians.
We also need to address the financial incentives that lure an unsustainably large number of developing-world doctors overseas in the first place, perhaps by obliging emigrating physicians whose home-country governments financed their medical-school training to pay the cost before allowing them practice medicine overseas.
She reminds physicians that, for the person suffering intense pain, what dominates awareness above all else is a powerful negative emotion.
Politicians and policymakers (and of course physicians) now know about health inequalities and the link between social status and morbidity, even if they do not always act effectively to address it.
Health Express achieves this by training local physicians in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and educating primary and middle-school students on health and hygiene via a traveling caravan that moves from school to school.
During a recent trip to Xinjiang, I met several physicians from rural hospitals who had received training through Health Express.
Now, with physicians trained in infectious diseases, hepatitis treatment is possible in rural areas of Xinjiang, and patient outcomes have improved significantly.
Like Hippocrates, physicians throughout history have recognized that the symptoms of normal sadness and depressive disorder were similar.
When a family seeks treatment that, in the professional judgment of the physicians, is not in the patient’s best interests, the answer should be: not far at all.
This bias is reinforced by the marketing message of pharmaceutical companies to physicians, which has emphasized research on delayed diagnosis and under-recognition of bipolar disorder, possibly sensitizing clinicians accordingly.
Physicians or institutions with economic interests can also influence the decisions of vulnerable hospital patients who are reluctant to consent to certain procedures.
MacKay gave examples, over the centuries, of social epidemics involving belief in alchemists, prophets of Judgment Day, fortune tellers, astrologers, physicians employing magnets, witch hunters, and crusaders.
Digital health-care tools are used to help nurses in decision-making; to ensure seamless connections among screening points, community-health workers, and physicians at the referral sites; and to empower patients to take more responsibility in managing their own health.
Physicians will be able to study your genes in the context of the biological systems within which they operate and learn how to circumvent the limitations they impose.
For example, when the new class of painkillers called Cox-2 inhibitors was introduced, regulators, physicians, and patients were unaware that these drugs could cause heart attacks and strokes.
Physicians may feel guilty and fear litigation, drug companies worry about the threat to corporate profits and regulatory agencies must face the question: “Why was the drug approved in the first place?”
Their skepticism is hardly groundless: internal documents obtained in recent lawsuits reveal that drug companies often fail to submit critical safety information to regulatory agencies, as required by law, and fail to communicate such information to physicians and patients.
Those that engaged in the opposite behaviors – selling antibiotics as livestock “growth promoters” or actively encouraging physicians to prescribe the drugs – would lose points.
Physicians should not be spending more time entering data than they do caring for patients.
The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.
Of particular concern is the response of primary-care physicians, who prescribe 80% of all antidepressants, but often treat many patients per hour.
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