David Lozar is a family physician and author of Technology and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.
It was the middle of winter in downtown Chicago in 1995, and I was sitting across from an apologetic alcoholic holding a slimy NG tube. Mr. Smith, an emaciated man in his sixties, had been on my service for three days with acute pancreatitis, and this was the fifth nasogastric tube that had “slipped” out of his nose.
Subsequently, his morning labs were just as bad as they had been on …
An excerpt from Technology and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.
As disturbing as the structure of malpractice insurance is in America, a more significant problem is the defensive style of medical practice it induces. In a large-scale survey done by Jackson Healthcare in 2010, between 73-92% of physicians self-reported ordering unnecessary …
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