Focusing on Healthy Aging For Adults 30-50 to Prevent Chronic Disease @ drashori.com
Unfortunately, we are rewarded for catching diagnoses like pneumonia, Strep Throat, and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) but not rewarded for not catching those diagnoses. Most of these conditions have a grim reputation even among physicians. The reality is that most don't need treatment and are quite benign. Does the PE in a person with low O2 sat and hx of HF need treatment? The answer should be obvious. But does the incidental PE caught because of defensive medicine warrant treatment? It does, if the physician wants to avoid litigation. A better approach in medicine is to capture the overall mortality rate of a physician than try to squeeze the most litigation dollars out of a single case. The latter is more short-term lucrative and the former will result in much better healthcare, access, and patient health.
