title: Say no to government control of patient care.
abstract: Healthcare reform threatens to jeopardize the role of physicians in deciding what is appropriate care for their patients. Factors outside the doctor-patient relationship, such as a global budget and limited access, will exert increasing influence on the decision-making process, according to Dr Dewberry. In this commentary, he explores the roots of this dangerous trend and suggests that physicians take an uncompromising stance against it.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Dewberry
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006076:Government; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008119:Lobbying; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States