Slippery Slopes and Landing on Your Feet

• Marco D. Huesch ^[1]
  1. [1] USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Health Sector Management Area, Duke Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 12, 2014, págs. 1203-1204
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Ejemplar
• Resumen

  • Avarice is of course somewhat different from lust, but I have to plead ignorance too. No one had ever said anything to me at all when I first started about either physician incentives or conflicts of interest.

    I had studied medicine in the right place. Sydney University in the 1980s graduated physicians with a proud understanding of how Australia’s single-payer system provided essentially free access to high-quality, evidence-based treatment. We prided ourselves on a primary care system that was well remunerated on a fee-for-service basis and provided high-quality prevention and wellness services, specialist gatekeeping, and chronic care management.