ETHICSMEDICAL ETHICS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The Stable Patient and the Counted Procedure: What a Cardiologist Owes When the Hospital Is Keeping Score
A Chief Minister's criticism of unnecessary angioplasty, the medical profession's objection to it and a physicians' evidence-based reply have together raised a core GS4 question: how a doctor should act when institutional incentives reward intervention and the patient cannot judge whether it is needed.
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