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This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …
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increasingly demand specific drugs, treatment, or other medical services from their physicians. If the physician fails to provide … their treatment plans. As a result of these treatment demands, physicians are under growing pressure to provide the …'s financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist …
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physicians' service quality and interpersonal skills, ratings are positively associated with important conventional measures of … clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … on patient flow, measured by physicians' patient revenue and patient volume. By instrumenting for physicians' ratings …
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We study the impact of losing health insurance on criminal activity by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid disenrollments in U.S. history, which occurred in Tennessee in 2005 and lead to 190,000 non-elderly and non-disabled adults without dependents unexpectedly losing coverage....
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The study examines the effect of a dental-care reform for children in Israel on the use of dental care and intra-household allocation of dental treatments. Using seven-year administrative panel data on patients' dental treatments at a large clinic in Jerusalem that serves one of the target...
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This study contributes to recent work on the relationship between minimum wages and health by examining potential mechanisms. Specifically, the roles of health and dental insurance, health care access and utilization are explored. By estimating both DD and DDD models, the study shows that higher...
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Markov-based and discrete event simulation models are widely used in health economic analysis to estimate the long term effects of treatment on clinical and economic outcomes. However, none of them simultaneously integrate patients' economic resources and their medical decision making in the...
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We explore the role that physicians play in moderating compliance with recommended vaccinations. Using administrative …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...
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Health is not characterized only by the absence of disease; nowadays, health can be perceived as a human right. Health policies all over the world aim to increase the life expectancy, the health, and the quality of life of citizens, within the limits of the available resources. In this opinion...
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