The Rising Urgency to Pivot Back Toward Hippocratic Medicine

Am J Med. 2022 Jan;135(1):49-52. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.018. Epub 2021 Oct 2.

Authors

Armin Arbab-Zadeh¹, Scott L Zeger², Roger S Blumenthal³, William S Weintraub⁴, William E Boden⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine. Electronic address: azadeh1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
³ Department of Medicine.
⁴ MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
⁵ VA New England Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Mass.

PMID: 34610297
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.018

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MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care / economics*
Hippocratic Oath
Humans
Overdiagnosis*
Physician-Patient Relations*
Reimbursement Mechanisms*
Unnecessary Procedures*