In Europe it is the same problematic situation. In the last years Ive had unimaginable "horror" stories with doctors, not necessarily technical mistakes but mainly human ones (I guess Im attricting sociopaths or their number is generally very high among doctors and Im just prone to trigger them, I dont know). There should be a psychological test before entering medical university and high emphasis on empathic behaviour (it should ideally be taught at primary schools but anyways), also new health care workers should be trained to focus on prevention rather than on healing (not to "heal" healty individuals and intervene under all circumstances, to the countrary: only if it is essential), start to teach a holistic attitude combining Western-Eastern methods instead of overemphasizing drug treatment: medical universities and professional practice should go financially independent from pharmaceutical industry, and stop over-emphasizing toxic drug treatment; and rehabilitate Hypocrates oath into actual practice: DO NOT HARM!!! These should be essential. All medical consultations and treatment should be recorded and both patients and doctors should have a copy to secure both good- willed patients and doctors, and for science and educational purposes. Primarily human deficiancies (evil and purposful harming) should be filtered out by the records, also patterns of mistakes. Only those should be doctors for whom it is a passion, a mission, not just a prestigious well paying profession.
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JOEY GEORGE
9 years ago
I feel likea cow, most doctors i visit treat me as swinging door they spend very little time with me and pass me on to the next Doctor or physical therapist and when I go to those health care providers I'm treated very quickly printed information in hand and send back out the door what happened to doctors who really cared and I don't mean that emotionally
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Fan Wu
9 years ago
Humanity
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Theresa Feighny
10 years ago
I read an article in The Economist Magazine highlighting all the ways doctors receive payment for prescribing and/or administering drugs under Medicare. This practice, though legal, is highly unethical and detrimental to the trust relationship between me and my doctors. On top of this, paying doctors with Medicare funds is robbing the system of much-needed funds to carry on future care of our elderly.
Why do doctors have such privilege? They already make astronomical earnings thanks to the medical coding system that allows them to charge for every tiny part of patient care. Have you looked on your detailed bill lately? If you had a blood test, look for the charge for drawing the blood. The doctor/patient relationship is becoming more and more adversarial and we, the patients, are vulnerable both financially and health-wise. I no longer trust that my doctors have my best interest at heart.
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Karen Russell Smith
10 years ago
This is the right thing to do. Thank you for putting patients first.
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Mike Roeder
10 years ago
Demanding transparency is more vital than ever and if we all keep up the pressure then we may truly achieve the better outcomes that we need to move forward as a society.
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Elsie Campbell
10 years ago
Featured
After seeing how my parents suffered at the hands of medical professionals in their final days, this is a very important issue to me as I begin to age, and begin needing more and more specialist care myself. Family doctors I think have more respect for the individual as they learn to know you over the years, but with specialists, you become a collection of body parts to be 'cured' without respect for the individual or his quality of life. Thank you for beginning this discussion. I heard about this petition on NPR program this afternoon.
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John E Whitcomb
10 years ago
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I'm thrilled by this! I left organized Medicine with a lucrative emergency medicine career to start a "cash only" integrative practice so that my financial incentives are always aligned only with my patients. It is so refreshing. For the first time in my life, I'm free of the pervasive perverse financial incentives of organized health care, hidden inside innocuous sounding things like quality measures, national guidelines (designed by conflicted experts) and all the drug rep material. Free at last, free at last.
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Howard K
11 years ago
What a great site you have! We believe in transparency and the rights of the patient to know as much about their doctor as possible! That is why we created https://www.ezdoctor.com where you can get a full background report on any doctor in the United States. Check out EZDoctor.com to get a report on your doctor today!
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Giorgio Bert
11 years ago
As a founder of Slow Medicine movement in Italy (www.slowmedicine.it), I completely agree with the Manifesto
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Anna Russell
11 years ago
This is exactly what we need.
I enjoyed private doctors in Italy because they got to know me- and remember me- not just through records. I loved your TED talk.
It cost 40 euro more to have a doctor in Italy visit a patient at home. I've never heard of American docs visiting patients at home. This would cost an absurd fortune. Medicine needs to be more personal.
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Nathaniel Doromal
11 years ago
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I'm a finance professional. I am required by the standards of my profession to disclose conflicts of interests when recommending financial products for my clients. Failure to do so constitutes an ethical breach.
It is astounding that we don't have the same standard for doctors whose profession is held in such high regard.
To the doctors of America and those in the healthcare profession, surely we can do better for the American public.
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Freyja McGardi
11 years ago
I would just like to say well done to starting this up. I found this though a facebook post that my friend had shared. So much good will come of this. I'm 19 and the way that doctors work kinda scares me but hey at least this has started up. I'm pretty sure that this is only in the US at the moment but I would be hell keen to see it come to Australia.
Thank you for doing this :)
Good luck,
Freya
P.S. It reached me in Australia :) <3
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Larry Motylinski
11 years ago
I just watched the talk on TedMed. I wanted to see if there was a questionaire that patients could submit to potential doctors that asked them questions such as 'Do you have any stocks in Pharmaceutical companies ?' or 'Are you invested in any way with a medical device manufacturer ?'. Their answers an either be yes, no or refused to answer. Their answers will help us patients decide whether we want to pay for their services or not. It will help us to make an informed decision. I suggest their is a discussion opened to decide what questions should be on the Q&A sheet so it can be made simple and apply to many different docs. Then make that Q&A sheet and make it available to anyone (for free of course). It seems like the next logical step to me anyway.
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Donald G. Sims
11 years ago
Re. Some docs angry reaction...Hell hath no fury as when a vested interest is maskeraiding as a principle.
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Fritz Wyssen
11 years ago
In time this will catch on.
A list will take years to compile. As patients request it only then it will become more important.
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sheila cook
11 years ago
I was hoping that by going to this site I would find a list of physicians in Portland who have signed on to this movement.
Is there a list somewhere?
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sheila cook
11 years ago
Two questions:
How can I get my doctor to become involved? and
What specific questions would you suggest I ask my doctors about disclosure of possible affiliations?
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Stephen Smith
11 years ago
My current doctor is such an amazing example of the openness we are asking for. Before coming to this doctor, I did not realize the degree to which my former doctors had dedicated their lives, their hearts, and indeed their souls......to the unequivocal pursuit of one thing above all others -- I am speaking, of course, of money. My current doctor sees me as a whole and unique person, and metes out my treatments accordingly. I have found this simple act of kindness to be not only a refreshingly straightforward trust builder in my relationship with the doctor, but a benefit to my overall health. So how do we access the list?
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Mitchell Krouth
11 years ago
All doctors need to step back and develop on non-bias bedside manner that will help the medical needs of the patient and not financially stabilize
In Europe it is the same problematic situation. In the last years Ive had unimaginable "horror" stories with doctors, not necessarily technical mistakes but mainly human ones (I guess Im attricting sociopaths or their number is generally very high among doctors and Im just prone to trigger them, I dont know). There should be a psychological test before entering medical university and high emphasis on empathic behaviour (it should ideally be taught at primary schools but anyways), also new health care workers should be trained to focus on prevention rather than on healing (not to "heal" healty individuals and intervene under all circumstances, to the countrary: only if it is essential), start to teach a holistic attitude combining Western-Eastern methods instead of overemphasizing drug treatment: medical universities and professional practice should go financially independent from pharmaceutical industry, and stop over-emphasizing toxic drug treatment; and rehabilitate Hypocrates oath into actual practice: DO NOT HARM!!! These should be essential. All medical consultations and treatment should be recorded and both patients and doctors should have a copy to secure both good- willed patients and doctors, and for science and educational purposes. Primarily human deficiancies (evil and purposful harming) should be filtered out by the records, also patterns of mistakes. Only those should be doctors for whom it is a passion, a mission, not just a prestigious well paying profession.
I feel likea cow, most doctors i visit treat me as swinging door they spend very little time with me and pass me on to the next Doctor or physical therapist and when I go to those health care providers I'm treated very quickly printed information in hand and send back out the door what happened to doctors who really cared and I don't mean that emotionally
Humanity
I read an article in The Economist Magazine highlighting all the ways doctors receive payment for prescribing and/or administering drugs under Medicare. This practice, though legal, is highly unethical and detrimental to the trust relationship between me and my doctors. On top of this, paying doctors with Medicare funds is robbing the system of much-needed funds to carry on future care of our elderly. Why do doctors have such privilege? They already make astronomical earnings thanks to the medical coding system that allows them to charge for every tiny part of patient care. Have you looked on your detailed bill lately? If you had a blood test, look for the charge for drawing the blood. The doctor/patient relationship is becoming more and more adversarial and we, the patients, are vulnerable both financially and health-wise. I no longer trust that my doctors have my best interest at heart.
This is the right thing to do. Thank you for putting patients first.
Demanding transparency is more vital than ever and if we all keep up the pressure then we may truly achieve the better outcomes that we need to move forward as a society.
After seeing how my parents suffered at the hands of medical professionals in their final days, this is a very important issue to me as I begin to age, and begin needing more and more specialist care myself. Family doctors I think have more respect for the individual as they learn to know you over the years, but with specialists, you become a collection of body parts to be 'cured' without respect for the individual or his quality of life. Thank you for beginning this discussion. I heard about this petition on NPR program this afternoon.
I'm thrilled by this! I left organized Medicine with a lucrative emergency medicine career to start a "cash only" integrative practice so that my financial incentives are always aligned only with my patients. It is so refreshing. For the first time in my life, I'm free of the pervasive perverse financial incentives of organized health care, hidden inside innocuous sounding things like quality measures, national guidelines (designed by conflicted experts) and all the drug rep material. Free at last, free at last.
What a great site you have! We believe in transparency and the rights of the patient to know as much about their doctor as possible! That is why we created https://www.ezdoctor.com where you can get a full background report on any doctor in the United States. Check out EZDoctor.com to get a report on your doctor today!
As a founder of Slow Medicine movement in Italy (www.slowmedicine.it), I completely agree with the Manifesto
This is exactly what we need. I enjoyed private doctors in Italy because they got to know me- and remember me- not just through records. I loved your TED talk. It cost 40 euro more to have a doctor in Italy visit a patient at home. I've never heard of American docs visiting patients at home. This would cost an absurd fortune. Medicine needs to be more personal.
I'm a finance professional. I am required by the standards of my profession to disclose conflicts of interests when recommending financial products for my clients. Failure to do so constitutes an ethical breach. It is astounding that we don't have the same standard for doctors whose profession is held in such high regard. To the doctors of America and those in the healthcare profession, surely we can do better for the American public.
I would just like to say well done to starting this up. I found this though a facebook post that my friend had shared. So much good will come of this. I'm 19 and the way that doctors work kinda scares me but hey at least this has started up. I'm pretty sure that this is only in the US at the moment but I would be hell keen to see it come to Australia. Thank you for doing this :) Good luck, Freya P.S. It reached me in Australia :) <3
I just watched the talk on TedMed. I wanted to see if there was a questionaire that patients could submit to potential doctors that asked them questions such as 'Do you have any stocks in Pharmaceutical companies ?' or 'Are you invested in any way with a medical device manufacturer ?'. Their answers an either be yes, no or refused to answer. Their answers will help us patients decide whether we want to pay for their services or not. It will help us to make an informed decision. I suggest their is a discussion opened to decide what questions should be on the Q&A sheet so it can be made simple and apply to many different docs. Then make that Q&A sheet and make it available to anyone (for free of course). It seems like the next logical step to me anyway.
Re. Some docs angry reaction...Hell hath no fury as when a vested interest is maskeraiding as a principle.
In time this will catch on. A list will take years to compile. As patients request it only then it will become more important.
I was hoping that by going to this site I would find a list of physicians in Portland who have signed on to this movement. Is there a list somewhere?
Two questions: How can I get my doctor to become involved? and What specific questions would you suggest I ask my doctors about disclosure of possible affiliations?
My current doctor is such an amazing example of the openness we are asking for. Before coming to this doctor, I did not realize the degree to which my former doctors had dedicated their lives, their hearts, and indeed their souls......to the unequivocal pursuit of one thing above all others -- I am speaking, of course, of money. My current doctor sees me as a whole and unique person, and metes out my treatments accordingly. I have found this simple act of kindness to be not only a refreshingly straightforward trust builder in my relationship with the doctor, but a benefit to my overall health. So how do we access the list?
All doctors need to step back and develop on non-bias bedside manner that will help the medical needs of the patient and not financially stabilize