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Andrea Joy Campbell: “One's obligation as a physician to advise a patient on what the patient's best choice of treatment should be seems to me…”

On the recordMay 24, 2000
One's obligation as a physician to advise a patient on what the patient's best choice of treatment should be seems to me paramount and ought to be untouchable. Yet, what we have allowed to develop in this country, through contract, not through any Federal law, but through contract and the force of power of the HMO or the insurance company on the other side of the contract, is that you do not offer that advice. You are gagged. You are subject to the gag rule.
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Andrea Joy Campbell
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the limitations placed on physicians by HMOs and insurance companies.

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