Grow a Spine, Have a Heart: Responding to Patient Requests for Marginally Beneficial Care

AMA J Ethics. 2015 Nov 1;17(11):1028-34. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.11.ecas2-1511.

Authors

Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir¹, Annika Beck², Jon C Tilburt³

Affiliations

¹ primary care physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
² majoring in philosophy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
³ practices general internal medicine and integrative medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

PMID: 26595243
DOI: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.11.ecas2-1511

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Anxiety / etiology
Anxiety / prevention & control*
Beneficence*
Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Breast Neoplasms / psychology*
Cost Control
Fear
Female
Health Care Rationing / economics
Health Care Rationing / ethics*
Humans
Insurance Coverage
Insurance, Health
Male
Mammography / economics
Mammography / ethics*
New York City
Obesity / complications
Predictive Value of Tests
Prescriptions / economics
Unnecessary Procedures / economics
Unnecessary Procedures / ethics