Consumerism in the doctor-patient relationship.
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In the course of his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics, Ian Kennedy discussed the consumer-provider model as the means by which the patient-physician relationship might be regulated, with the patient as consumer having a major role in establishing, monitoring, and enforcing standards of medical practice. Little, a psychiatrist, agrees that such consumer involvement would help to redress the inbalances of quality and availability in the present health care system. It could lighten the physician's burden and encourage an expanded role for doctors in health promotion.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical ethics
دوره 7 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981