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WebMD Study: U.S. Doctors Deeply Divided on Many Matters of Ethical Ambiguity
Date:11/19/2012

NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD), the leading source of health information, today released the findings of a new survey from Medscape from WebMD that reveals U.S. physicians are deeply divided on many ethical decisions that could significantly impact patients and their families.

Medscape's 2012 Ethics Survey examined how more than 24,000 U.S. physicians would react when faced with a wide range of ethical dilemmas, including end-of-life care, physician performance, abortion, romantic relationships with patients, malpractice, insurance, and patient communications and consent.

"The increasing number of conflicting forces makes ethical decisions tougher and more wrenching for physicians," said Leslie Kane, MA, executive editor of Medscape Business of Medicine. "Technological advances, new regulations, and more pressure to control costs all fight with the doctors' desire to give patients the best possible care. Some ethical issues are life-and-death struggles, and doctors take them strongly to heart."

With continuing technological advancements, compounded with mandates for the appropriate expenditure of resources, physicians are facing more ethical issues than in the past.

  • Defensive Medicine: When asked if it is acceptable to perform "unnecessary" procedures because of malpractice concerns, 23% of physicians responded "yes," 55% "no," and 22% said "it depends."
  • Cost Containment: When asked if a patient who is "nonadherent" or "overuses" resources should be dismissed, 32% responded "yes," 33% said "no," and 36% said "it depends."
  • Insurance: When asked if insurers should be dropped if they do not pay well, even if longtime patients must stop seeing them, 27% of physicians surveyed
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