title: Medical deresponsibilization.
abstract: The medical profession is facing a serious challenge. The increase of technology, risks, and costs of modern medicine leads to the intervention of third parties within the medical decision-making process. This is particularly true in reproductive medicine, where a large part of medical activities are not curative, not linked with actual abnormalities, but preventive, and frequently oriented more to desire and convenience than to needs. These third parties belong to the fields of economics, administration, law, public opinion, mediatic power. This trend is universal, with some specific characteristics varying by country. The increased risk of litigation leads to an increase of all aspects of defensive medicine, with obvious medical, practical, economic deleterious consequences.
authors.affiliation: American Hospital of Paris, Neuilly/Seine, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sureau
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011639:Public Opinion