Our new health care systems may not be fair

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Economic pressures are forcing changes in the roles of both patients and physicians. With health resource rationing becoming so widespread it is affecting even basic health care services, patients must take up the responsibility of looking for their own needed care, with their physician's help. Physicians, in turn, must make sure that they do not abandon the needs of their individual patients although resource allocation requires that they consider the group of patients with similar problems in their medical decisions.

Health Care, Health Care and Social Assistance, Health care industry, Column, Medical care, Patients

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Issues to consider in testing for breast cancer genes

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Doctors should counsel patients before testing for genetic susceptibility to breast cancer. Genetic susceptibility does not mean that a women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, it means that she is at increased risk for breast cancer. Doctors should help patients understand that there are societal risks associated with being at increased risk for developing a life-threatening disease.

Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories, Cancer Diagnosis, Management, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Breast cancer, Genetic toxicology

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