Re: Patient vs. client

From: Douglas Krell (sfth@roadrunner.com)
Thu Oct 31 08:10:41 1996


It seems to me that far too many of our patients have been turned into clients by the imposition of the insurance company as a 3rd party into the doctor patient relationship.

Physicians have taditionally been "healers". We facilitated the ability of a person to heal themselves. By adopting a purely scientific model and then inviting insurance companies into the deal in order to "guarantee" our method of reimbursement, we have inadvertantly altered the doctor-patient relationship in many cases, into one that more closely resembles doctor-client.

Too bad, but I think we are as much at fault in this as anyone. How to fix it? Thats the question.

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Douglas Krell MD FACOG
Santa Fe




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