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 …

. We find that competition between providers may serve as an important incentive for physicians in treating their patients … patients and where patients’ outside options are solved for in equilibrium. In our model, physicians are characterized by an …In this paper, we examine provider and patient behaviour where effort is non-contractible and where competition between …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they …