The fight over how to deliver bad news to patients

Jan 9 2023 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

Congress was full of good intentions when it directed the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure patients get their test results as soon as they’re available.

But the implementation of that directive has set off a battle between doctors on one side and HHS and patient advocates on the other, and raised a fundamental question: How should patients get bad news? The debate underscores how medicine's digital transformation is changing the doctor-patient relationship and...

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