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<blockquote data-quote="MorkandMindy" data-source="post: 74894562" data-attributes="member: 172332"><p>Financial incentive affects some doctor's judgement:</p><p></p><p>One example:</p><p>A friend's wife had two strokes and he took her to hospital where she got medication to stabilise her condition. She had scans and was helicoptered to a hospital 20 miles away that dealt with cancer which was the underlying problem. My friend was told he could not go in the helicopter but to try to keep up in his car, through downtown traffic...</p><p></p><p>I now realise that was to prevent him having time to think.</p><p></p><p>So much of her brain was dead that she was in a persistently vegetative state and would never recover and the cancer was terminal.</p><p></p><p>When he arrived she was ready in the operating theatre and the surgeon said he was going to perform a life-saving operation.</p><p></p><p>My friend was not cognizant that 'life-saving' really meant 'death prolonging' so the operation was not just unnecessary but would add a lot more nursing care.</p><p></p><p>Well the surgeon got 6,000 pounds for the op and the hospital staff, helicopter etc got another 65,000. His various forms of insurance paid most of it so he only lost 20,000 pounds in this scam.</p><p></p><p>Having doctors on commission can affect their judgement. I've noticed this is more prevalent in male doctors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MorkandMindy, post: 74894562, member: 172332"] Financial incentive affects some doctor's judgement: One example: A friend's wife had two strokes and he took her to hospital where she got medication to stabilise her condition. She had scans and was helicoptered to a hospital 20 miles away that dealt with cancer which was the underlying problem. My friend was told he could not go in the helicopter but to try to keep up in his car, through downtown traffic... I now realise that was to prevent him having time to think. So much of her brain was dead that she was in a persistently vegetative state and would never recover and the cancer was terminal. When he arrived she was ready in the operating theatre and the surgeon said he was going to perform a life-saving operation. My friend was not cognizant that 'life-saving' really meant 'death prolonging' so the operation was not just unnecessary but would add a lot more nursing care. Well the surgeon got 6,000 pounds for the op and the hospital staff, helicopter etc got another 65,000. His various forms of insurance paid most of it so he only lost 20,000 pounds in this scam. Having doctors on commission can affect their judgement. I've noticed this is more prevalent in male doctors. [/QUOTE]
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