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Tuesday, September 21, 2004Do we know of a Culture that only pays the doctor if the Patient get well or healed?? If so, is this a new or ancient culture?? I don't know of any society that pays doctors only if their treatment is successful. For one thing, since so many treatments are less than perfect, such a payment structure would mean that doctors would rarely get paid. No one would ever want the job. The closest thing I could think of to this was the HMO-era of the 1990's when doctors were given bonuses by insurance companies for keeping the costs of patient care down. The assumption was that if less money was being spent on patient care, then the patients must be healthier. But of course, that's not the way the patients saw it. They saw it as a conflict of interest - the doctor sacrificing their care for a cash reward. It didn't make for very good doctor-patient relationships. posted by Sydney on 9/21/2004 10:20:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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