Anatomy and Atrophy of Medical Paternalism

Robert Graboyes and Eric Topol
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Annals of Computational Economics, 2017

Abstract: Since Ancient Greece, a guiding principle of Western medicine has been paternalism—the idea that doctors have intrinsically superior insights, patients should defer to their edicts, and this asymmetry is a desirable state of affairs. In the 20th century,

Date: 2017
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