Why doctors lie

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Tue May 28 18:18:47 PDT 2002


Anyone see "Damaged Care" on the Showtime channel? It starred Laura Dern and James LeGros and was fantastic. Probably in the ball park of some of the films Yoshie has been mentioning.


>In a paper published today in the Archives of Internal
>Medicine, University of Michigan Health System
>researchers found some physicians are willing to
>misrepresent clinical information to insurance
>companies in order for their patients to receive the
>medical treatment they feel is necessary.
>
>Senior author of the paper, Peter A. Ubel, M.D.,
>associate professor of internal medicine in the
>University of Michigan Medical School and research
>investigator at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration
>Medical Center, says he's not surprised.



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