Link → Americans Use Excessive Force, or None at All, Battling Diseases
[Note: Above link accesses full text article named, which is a discussion of two original articles, “Out-of-pocket spending and medication adherence among dialysis patients in 12 countries” from the Jan 8, 2008 Journal Health Affairs and Nancy Wong and Tracey King, “The Cultural Construction of Risk Understandings through Illness Narratives.” Journal of Consumer Research: February 2008.]
This is a discussion of two studies that look at seemingy irrational healthcare decision-making by patients:
“In one, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology investigate why some breast cancer patients who could safely opt for limited surgery instead insist on a more radical procedure. In the other, researchers from the University of Michigan found Americans suffering chronic kidney failure are more likely to go off their drug regimen than their counterparts overseas.”
