Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: In march nearly 2000 physicians-intraining struck eight hospitals in New York City claiming that patients were dying needlessly because of staff and equipment shortages. Do you support such strikes and if not, what other ways would you suggest for the strikers to bring about the enforcement of standards in patient care they feel are lacking...
Relman: I don't wish to tell the interns and residents of New York what to do, but I do wish to suggest that withholding professional services is not the best way to call attention to your situation. If I were a patient in one of those hospitals. I would not appreciate what the residents did even though they say they were doing it in my interest...
Crimson: Advances in technology have virtually transformed medicine several times since 1945 yet you have said that we overuse technology that are of marginal benefit to the patient and drive costs up unnecessarily. What can we do to stop this...
...procedure that is recognized as safe and is believed to be effective is accepted by the profession and will be reimbursed. And usually the more expensive and more elaborate and more technical, the more it's reimbursed for...If the money is there to pay for them and the patient likes the idea of having these elaborate tests done and the doctor is trained to do them, they're gonna be done...
...high payment for technical procedures as compared with personal services. As it is now, a few minutes spent peering through the end of some sort of instrument...is reimbursed at a rate that may be literally an order or two of magnitude greater than time spent, talking to the patient, examing the patient, counselling the patient or staying up with a sick patient at a hospital. These kinds of personal services that require a lot more time and no less skill are reimbursed at a fraction of the rate of the technical procedures...The insures, the government, and the bureaucrats...