Long term health of patients vs. Short term risk to doctors




ERcast Lite show

Summary: What is your real motivation when making medical decisions? Is it 'what's in the patient's best interest' or is it  'what will keep me from getting sued'? The reflexive answer is, of course,  the former, but if you really do some soul-searching, there's probably a bit of the latter as well. In this episode, Mike Weinstock, author of Bouncebacks, and Bouncebacks Pediatrics, discusses why we sometimes have our priorities misaligned with the patient's and how that doesn't need to be the case.