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 …

's financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist … legal duty on physicians to resist providing treatment that is not medically indicated, patients, physicians, and society … access to large quantities of generic and sometimes misleading, misunderstood, or misapplied medical information, patients …

(private health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, worker's compensation, and Medicare) patients …. Results: Compared with the other insured group, underinsured patients were less likely, overall, to be admitted to the …

affects male primary care physicians' practices and the health of their female patients. Specifically, female patients cared …While physicians are crucial to patient outcomes, what determines physician behavior and decision making remains to be … understood. In this paper, we study how physicians' family characteristics influence physicians' behavior and patient health …

improving efficiency), patient benefits (such as improving quality for individual patients) and personal benefits for …. Professionals furthermore doubt whether the policy is beneficial for patients, although this dimension is the least influential …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

decision may seem irrational or imprudent. When patients are incapable of providing informed consent—for example, if the … patient is unconscious—the law can authorize certain persons to act as a proxy on their behalf. In Argentina, the Patients … preference. The Patients’ Rights Act also permits patients to set up advance directives regarding health decisions to be made if …