Health Care Information Market: Who Will Fill The Increasing Demand?
Every doctor’s nightmare is the patient who comes in to discuss this or that answer that they Googled up last week. While educated patients are a pleasure to work with, most of the time the material that has been researched leads to badly misinformed patients. This requires hours of work to try to explain urban legends that don’t really work.In some cases, these attempts at rational explanation are met with failure because the internet material sounds a whole lot more promising and “sexy” in some situations, and emotion is more powerful than rational thought. When faced with serious medical problems, this can mean deadly consequences.
Where does that leave us?……It leaves us in extremely urgent need of self regulation instead of the probable creation of additional Draconian policies from regulatory agencies like the FTC. The former sounds like a better deal to me and is both an altruistic people-centered movement as well as a high return-on-investment proposition. The latter is lose-lose and here’s why…
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