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Posted on September 29, 2008

A reader writes:While I agree that physicians time needs to be valued, I think you are missing the point with patient self-education. There has been a serious breach of trust between patient and doctor in the last 10 years due to (1) the insidious influence of the pharmaceutical companies including the establishment of the current guidelines, (2) practicing defensive medicine and (3) the perverse incentive to do as much as possible to increase the bottom line.Doctors need to accept that people are protecting themselves when they research and contrary to physicians opinions, many of us ...

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