Use of IMRT for Financial Incentive Purposes
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Hope that does not influence the patient group.
VGama
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IMRT collusion
Medical treatment decisions are the most asymmetrical possible. One person, the medical professional, holds all of the information and has access to all of the treatment modalities. The person who must decide, the patient, has little to none of this information or access and therefor is the most abject victim of this information inequality. This was also true in the past in the case of stock brokers, real estate agents, travel agents, college counselors and others who were "gate keepers" in their respective processes. The internet has allowed this asymmetricality to be replaced with a more balanced information access, with the result that several of these professions have been reduced or nearly eliminated.
Medical treatment decisions remain a lasting reminder of this former time when we were hostage to those who could control our decisions, often to their greater advantage, without our ability to negotiate, usually without knowledge of their actions.
This article reveals only the most obvious of these actions. They are pervasive in any field where information is asymmetrical.0 -
does it worktarhoosier said:IMRT collusion
Medical treatment decisions are the most asymmetrical possible. One person, the medical professional, holds all of the information and has access to all of the treatment modalities. The person who must decide, the patient, has little to none of this information or access and therefor is the most abject victim of this information inequality. This was also true in the past in the case of stock brokers, real estate agents, travel agents, college counselors and others who were "gate keepers" in their respective processes. The internet has allowed this asymmetricality to be replaced with a more balanced information access, with the result that several of these professions have been reduced or nearly eliminated.
Medical treatment decisions remain a lasting reminder of this former time when we were hostage to those who could control our decisions, often to their greater advantage, without our ability to negotiate, usually without knowledge of their actions.
This article reveals only the most obvious of these actions. They are pervasive in any field where information is asymmetrical.
to me, the big question is does it work?0
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