Is it really a wise idea to fake symptoms to grade doctors?
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When I was working as a consultant to the Medical Board of California, they frequently used “fake” patients (who were usually clinicians or investigators) to check out standard of care issues, prescribing issues, and fraud issues.
I think I saw about 10 of these fake patients on my ER shift today.
I heard this quote at an ACP conference (I think it was from Faith Fitzgerald from the University of California):
These actors teach us that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck it’s actually a parrot. Pretty soon no one will know how to diagnose a real patient.
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