Zeckhauser, Richard; Fang, Hai; Miller, Nolan H.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources apart from their physicians, such as the Internet and direct-to-patient advertising. Consumerism has been hailed as a means of improving quality. This need not be the result. Consumerist patients place additional...