Likewise, physicians should be accountable for sound advice and good service to their patients, and should create medical forums inside their offices for helping patients prevent illness in organized, primary prevention-oriented programs. Both patients and physicians should have incentives to do the right thing. Here are some financial reasons. Here are some popular reasons. The Marcus Welby doctor-dependent patient paradigm changed decades ago.
People are no longer dependent on physicians for medical information.
Talk radio and television started this revolution. The Internet and vitamin displays at drugstores will likely finish it. There isn't an American adult who doesn't know that tobacco and lung disease are related. Take dinner, for example. Supersizing is killing us.