Is There a Conflict of Interest?

• Autores: Shiphra Ginsburg, Wendy Levinson
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 317, Nº. 17, 2017, págs. 1796-1797
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Dr Patel is an internist who recently joined a large multidisciplinary clinic. She often refers her patients to 1 of the 6 cardiologists who work there. She has noticed that when her patients are seen by Dr Wells, they almost always undergo stenting procedures, whereas when her patients are seen by the other cardiologists, a larger variety of treatment approaches are used. At first she thought it was a coincidence or that perhaps she was somehow sending patients with more severe heart disease to Dr Wells. But then a colleague made an offhand comment that “If you want your patient to get stented, send them to Dr Wells.” She is concerned that her patients may have been overtreated and subjected to needless risk and that Dr Wells may not be acting in the best interests of his patients.