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I found this story to be terribly interesting (and disturbing).
It was doctors, not patients, who drove medical consumption, and all kinds of things influenced the decisions a doctor makes when a patient enters his office. Sickness and patient preference play an important role, but a much smaller role than patients and the health care community had originally thought.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...571111&ps=cprs
The story details how the agressiveness of treatment often varies much more by location than anything else, and how the treatments aren't always (or even usually) warranted.
It was doctors, not patients, who drove medical consumption, and all kinds of things influenced the decisions a doctor makes when a patient enters his office. Sickness and patient preference play an important role, but a much smaller role than patients and the health care community had originally thought.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...571111&ps=cprs
The story details how the agressiveness of treatment often varies much more by location than anything else, and how the treatments aren't always (or even usually) warranted.
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