Why Worry About Patient Satisfaction?

Studies from both the Annals of Internal Medicine and the British Medical Journal did not find a strong correlation between patient satisfaction and the quality of care. In other words, just because you’re satisfied with your doctor doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a competent physician.

Full op-ed on the drawbacks of patient-satisfaction surveys.

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

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  1. Joe S. says:

    John, you are going to get even less satisfaction after ObamaCare passes.

  2. Devon Herrick says:

    Apparently a good “bedside manner” was more important 100 years ago before physicians had much in the way of life-saving medical technology to heal patients.

  3. artk says:

    John: This fits right in with your puff piece on CTCA. Their investment in image and gloss may help their bottom line but it doesn’t help their patients get better.

  4. Ken says:

    artk: you seem to think that patients throwing up and being unable to eat and enduring pain is something doctors shouldn’t be concerned with. Do you really think the size of the tumor is all that matters? Doesn’t patient comfort count for anything?

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