A new study in the journal Health Affairs shows that some health care providers are not always completely honest about medical errors, the severity of a prognosis or their relationships with drug companies.<\/p>\n
The study involved surveying about 1,800 physicians from across the country in a variety of practice areas and specialties. Researchers found that 20 percent of these physicians had not revealed a medical error in the past year because they were concerned about being sued. An even larger group \u00a8C about 35 percent \u00a8Creported that they did not \u201ccompletely agree\u201d if they should disclose medical errors considered serious to their patients, according to the Huffington Post. <\/p>\n
More than a third of the surveyed physicians did not \u201ccompletely agree\u201d that they needed to disclose a financial relationship with a drug company or a medical device company. Alarmingly, more than half of the respondents said they had described a prognosis in a (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new study in the journal Health Affairs shows that some health care providers are not always completely honest about medical errors, the severity of a prognosis or their relationships with drug companies. The study involved surveying about 1,800 physicians…<\/span><\/p>\n