Standardized Treatment versus Standardized Patients
MEDICAL-LIABILITY UPDATE: Medicine continues its move toward predetermined Resource-Based Relative Value System delivery; forcing patients into coded treatment protocols designed by far-away experts. “It is easy to standardize treatment protocols. But it is difficult to standardize patients…Treatment protocols are based on statically generalized, rather than individualized, outcomes…Young doctors and medical students are being trained to follow protocol.” –J Singer MD / Cato Institute