Comments on: Consumerism and health quality http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/consumerism-and-health-quality.html medical blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:39:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ian Furst http://www.waittimes.blogspot.com http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/consumerism-and-health-quality.html/comment-page-1#comment-87445 Ian Furst http://www.waittimes.blogspot.com Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/consumerism-and-health-quality.html#comment-87445 I'm going to call bullshit on this one Kevin. You only wrote half the story. It was a theoritical model for time spent with the patients and a survey of physicians' on perceived quality. <br/><br/>Based on the abstract, there's no conclusion about patient satisfaction, access to care or actual outcomes discussed. Even though your conclusions are progressive, the storys' implication is that more information is bad - tough pill for a medical blogger to shallow. I’m going to call bullshit on this one Kevin. You only wrote half the story. It was a theoritical model for time spent with the patients and a survey of physicians’ on perceived quality.

Based on the abstract, there’s no conclusion about patient satisfaction, access to care or actual outcomes discussed. Even though your conclusions are progressive, the storys’ implication is that more information is bad – tough pill for a medical blogger to shallow.

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