A Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive poll shows that "more than half of U.S. adults say they've chosen to forgo a treatment recommended by their doctor, including filling a prescription, getting a diagnostic test or undergoing a surgical procedure, because they felt it was unnecessary or too aggressive."
One of the pollsters said, "A great deal of attention has been given to public concerns about aggressive profiteering on the part of pharmaceutical companies and other sectors of the health-care industry; these findings suggest that to some extent the public is also leery of the motivations behind physicians' decisions regarding patient care."
Posted by schwitz at September 13, 2005 08:11 AM | TrackBackLink to poll is broken 9/15/05.
Posted by: Diana at September 15, 2005 08:09 AM