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This week the Harvard Film Archive brings us "Docteur Petiot," the chilling, fact-based story of a physician turned serial killer during the chaotic days of Nazi occupation in Paris. Seamlessly uniting art and reality, Dr. Petiot borrows elements of documentary, horror and black comedy to unveil the evil of the "good doctor...
...system claim that if the number of doctors were to increase because of a relaxation of government regulations, the quality of doctors and the care they provided would suffer. But certification does not necessarily equal quality. A slight slip of the scalpel can occur even to a board-certified physician. Likewise, a degree from a newer medical school does not preclude high performance...
Doctors would still be able to receive private certification that illustrated the level of studies they had completed. Thus, they could demonstrate that their training was equal to any AMA-certified physician. In addition, many levels of certification would open up above and beneath this level...
Free market health care might very well mean a poorer person would not be able to afford the best physician. However, as Milton Friedman argued in Free to Choose, why shouldn't people receive the services of the Chevrolet of the medical profession simply because they cannot pay for Cadillacs...
...executed, and doctors are often reluctant to act even when the document is in order, lest a relative sue. "And even if the family bows to the patient's wishes as expressed in the will, it often takes days or weeks to get agreement," says Stephen Sullivan, a physician on the clinical faculty at Stanford University Hospital, "during which time costs continue to rise...