Disposable doctors: incentives to abuse physician peer review.
The following actual cases illustrate a disturbing trend in medicine, one that raises ethical issues that are especially important when considering how economic incentives and disincentives may affect the practice of medicine.
Fielder
J H
JH
Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA.
D002140:California; D002961:Civil Rights; D030881:Disclosure; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011287:Prejudice; D028743:Professional Misconduct; D014481:United States; D035642:Whistleblowing; D028761:Withholding Treatment