No clear answer to patient no-show struggle

 

Do patients have a responsibility when they fail to follow-up with their physicians? Barron H. Lerner, MD, and professor of medicine and population health at NYU School of Medicine, explores this hazy ethical area in a New York Times editorial.

“If one argues that doctors or their colleagues need to call all people who miss appointments, why shouldn’t we also be calling every day to make sure patients are taking their medications, exercising or adhering to their diets?,” he wrote.

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