{"id":500,"date":"2019-05-08T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fipo.mysites.io\/?p=500"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T10:12:39","slug":"no-patients-are-not-consumers-and-mds-are-not-providers-arthur-l-caplan-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/no-patients-are-not-consumers-and-mds-are-not-providers-arthur-l-caplan-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, Patients Are NOT Consumers, and MDs Are NOT Providers&#8221;, Arthur L. Caplan PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Medscape Ophthalmology&#8217; recently published this excellent article by Arthur L. Caplan PhD (Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Langone Medical Center) in its 23rd April 2019 journal titled: <em>&#8220;No, Patients Are NOT Consumers, and MDs Are NOT Providers,&#8221; <\/em>written to bolster similar comments made in an article by a New York bioethics think tank, the Hastings Center regarding the commercialisation of healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In our healthcare system, more and more, the language of business is shaping and changing descriptions of what doctor-patient encounters are all about,&#8221; <\/em>observes Dr. Caplan and this, as highlighted by the Hastings scholars, could distort the relationship between patient and doctor by implying that the parameters of that and those of a consumer and provider are the same, when they are not.<\/p>\n<h4>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/911562?nlid=129533_450&amp;src=WNL_mdplsfeat_190430_mscpedit_opth&amp;uac=69076DY&amp;spon=36&amp;impID=1951560&amp;faf=1\">here<\/a> for the article.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Medscape Ophthalmology&#8217; recently published this excellent article by Arthur L. Caplan PhD (Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Langone Medical Center) in its 23rd April 2019 journal titled: &#8220;No, Patients Are NOT Consumers, and MDs Are NOT Providers,&#8221; written to bolster similar comments made in an article by a New York bioethics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}