New studies find most heart procedures are appropriate

Article Abstract:

Researchers reviewed the appropriateness of coronary artery bypass surgery, coronary angiography and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty performed in New York State and judged only 4% of the operations surveyed to be inappropriate. Their report was published in the Feb 10, 1993, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Each procedure was reviewed by nine experts using appropriateness criteria developed through published studies. Previous reviews of such operations had yielded rates of inappropriate surgery as high as 17%.

Care and treatment, Usage, Practice, Physicians, Medical professions, Heart diseases, Coronary artery bypass, Therapeutics, Surgical, Surgical therapeutics

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Like doctor like patient: more and more patients choose physicians of same ethnic group, sexual preference

Article Abstract:

Patients are beginning to show a preference for physicians with a gender, race or sexual preference similar to their own. The phenomenon seems to be most prevalent among women and African-Americans. Women began the trend 10 years ago, frustrated by the insensitivity of male doctors. In the Chicago area, requests for black doctors are so great that one local physician has compiled a directory. Other physicians are alarmed by the trend, fearful that it will lower standards of medical care and exacerbate racial stereotyping.

Social aspects, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Minorities in medicine

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