What if Doctors Received Benefits if Patients Did Not Get Drug Side Effects?
Opinion by Nicholas Regush, ABCNews.com It’s high time the federal government offered doctors some economic incentive to prescribe drugs more appropriately to patients. Say, coupons for free economy mini-vacations to Tahiti for those doctors whose patients suffer no more than two somewhat serious drug side-effects in one fiscal year, or the latest model T-bird for those who have demonstrated near-clean patient serious drug side-effect records for a decade. This would, of course, require a novel patient drug monitoring system that would enable rewards to be properly distributed. Better FDA Labeling For Harried Doctors This forward-looking approach is actually partly inspired by an obviously frustrated Food and Drug Administration, which apparently believes doctors should share some of the blame for drug side-effect injuries and deaths because many do not read warning labels. To correct the shameless disregard for labels, the FDA proposed new labeling regulations late in December that wo
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