This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty … to disclose EMRs to patients who are unaware of them. Although most physicians and professional organizations agree that …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however …, Medicare's regulatory externalities are less well-understood. We study such implications by examining how physicians …

information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of … substitution probability. Based on 540,000 drug purchases by 60,000 patients we find that the probability of switching to a generic … substantially depend on whether patients face a copayment for their drug purchase and thus personally financially benefit from …

rights to bodily integrity and well-being. In terms of the law, patients cannot be involved in medical treatment or research … without IC. Healthcare providers must inform patients about diagnosis, risks, benefits, treatment options, and right of … refusal in a language patients understand based their literacy level. This study reports an empirical study on patients …

patients' information may have for health authorities. We derive the GP's payment contract that induces him to perform … diagnosis and followits recommendation, as well as the level of copayments that provide patients with incentives to select the … appropriate medical provider. We showthat when patients can freely choose their provider, the quality of their information has …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians … effects of competition for active patients as well as the negative effects of competition for passive patients become more … pronounced. Our results imply that competition can not only improve but also worsen patient outcome and that patients …