title: Consensual medicine and the therapeutic partnership: reducing the costs of defensive medicine and litigation.
abstract: Marking the start of our 25th Anniversary Year, Marcel Frenkel, MD, MBA, Founder and Editor Emeritus of this Journal, returns with a prescription that has interest for all players in the healthcare system. Though he focuses on the costs of defensive medicine and malpractice litigation, he proposes a significant change in medicine's cultural approach that can bring universal rewards: empower the patient.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, USA. marcfrenkel@sbcglobal.net
authors.forename: S Marcel
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Frenkel
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics*; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014481:United States