May 2010
2 posts
“In the case of prescription drugs, we know that 20%-30% of patients report...”
– G. Caleb Alexander, MD, bioethicist at the University of Chicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. From The One Subject That Doctors and Patients Still Avoid: Introduction
On Skin Cancer, it’s Clueless in Cleveland (and... →
This is another massive case of healthcare noncompliance (in this instance, the advice not being followed is that of dermatologists on preventing and detecting skin cancer), which can be summed up in the words of Dr Darrell Rigel, a professor of Dermatology at New York University Medical Center, “Over the years we’ve been somewhat successful with that message, but some people won’t change their...