and self-care as imperfect substitutes. It is assumed that specific knowledge increases the self-diagnosis competence …

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

-augmented healthcare delivery systems in view of (1) how physicians integrate AI into their clinical practice and (2) how patients perceive …

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 …

clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … patients to higher-quality physicians … patients' physician choices. We collect physician rating and review data from Yelp, a leading online physician rating platform …

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 …