One will find many examples of precaution and their corresponding examples of risk in how medical care is provided by physicians and accepted by patients. In fact, not only do these two elements correspond but at times the price, itself, of precaution becomes the risk.Risk is everywhere in medical practice. Risk is present when a patient is selecting a physician. The risk is becoming the patient of a doctor whose ...
Maurice Bernstein, MD
Patients need to contribute to help their doctors
"Be a fountain not a drain," an expression used by baseball announcer Rex Hudler, is one that has motivational content particularly in terms of an individual included as part of a team.I would suggest that this expression would be appropriate when considering a basic team in medical practice: the doctor-patient relationship. It is critical in most clinical situations that both the doctor and the patient assume responsibility for making ...
