Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor?
A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that doctor-patient trust is wavering. Pay for performance metrics put in place by insurers, hospital networks and regulatory groups are being used to reward or punish a doctor’s decisions about patient treatment. Here’s how it works, say Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman, two physicians on the faculty of Harvard Medical School: doctors earn a bonus, for example, when they prescribe ce...
