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Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

Narrative Policy Framework: Clear Enough to be Wrong?

Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

HYPOTHESIS Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events (WSPEs) are devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation, but their frequency and root causes are unknown. Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient events are likely more common than realized, with little evidence that current prevention practice is adequate. DESIGN Analysis of se...

denial of treatment to obese patients—the wrong policy on personal responsibility for health

in many countries around the world, including iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. this policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. but turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...