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Health for Sale: Business or Public Service?

With all current and future healthcare reforms, there is one fundamental question that underlies them all: is our healthcare just a business or is it a guaranteed service to protect citizens’...

Category: health as a business, health as a service, health for sale, Health Insurance, Healthcare as a business, healthcare as a service, hospital's culture, patient engagement, Patient mistrust physicians, Patient safety, patient satisfaction, Patients, Patients damage, Patients Physcians Relationships, Private Health, Private healthcare, Public Health, Public healthcare Tags: healthcare as a right, healthcare as a service, lack of sympathy for patients, medical errors, Patient damage, private healthcare, Professional indifference in hospitals, public healthcare, Public or Private healhtcare

Can a professional physician be indifferent to patients?

What does it take for a medical professional to express at least the same level of empathy to patients we are accustomed to receive in a civilized environment? And consequently what do patients...

Category: Compassion to patients, Doctors, Doctors know better, Empathy to patients, health as a business, Healthcare as a business, hospital's culture, medical education, Medical professionalism, Patient safety, patient satisfaction, Patients, Patients do not trust doctors, Patients Physcians Relationships, physicians' workload Tags: Compassion to patients, doctors know better, Empathy to patients, lack of sympathy for patients, professional indifference

Medical culture: can silence kill?

I remember sitting in the Intensive Care Unit (ISU) attending a patient after cardio surgery. The usually quiet atmosphere of ISU was interrupted by electrifying fuss: the physician on duty...

Category: health as a business, Healthcare as a business, hospital's culture, medical education, Medical Errors, medical hierarchy Tags: authoritarian culture, medical authority, medical culture, medical education, medical errors, Patients, patients and doctors, physicians and patients, Professional indifference in hospitals

Healthcare without care: do patients really matter?

Patient engagement is said to be the prerequisite to improve the European health system. With the rapid growth of aging population and cumulative costs for hospitalization, patients are expected to take...

Category: AOK Health Insurance 2014 report, Florence, health as a business, Health Insurance, Hospital de Torrevieja, hospital's culture, Nursing Care, patient damage, patient engagement, patient satisfaction, preventable hospital deaths Tags: Do patient matter?, Doctors do not care about patients, efficient care, empathy in hospitals, Healthcare without care, lack of sympathy for patients, Medical proffessional do not care about patients, mistreatment in hospitals, Patient damage, Professional indifference in hospitals, profitable hospital

Why patients distrust physicians?

Have you ever doubt your doctor’s decision? If so, you are not the only one. Even doctors nowadays doubt the efficiency of healthcare system advising patients not to trust physicians “any...

Category: Doctors, health as a business, Healthcare as a business, Medical Errors, medication adherence, medication comliance, Microsoft Health Vault, Misdiagnosis, Patient mistrust physicians, Patient safety, Patients, Patients damage, Patients do not trust doctors, Patients Physcians Relationships, Personal Health Records, Uncategorized Tags: healhtcare as a business, health as a business, medical errors, misdiagnosis, patients distrust doctors, patients physicians relationships, patients trust doctors

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