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The Layperson's Layperson's avatar

I would like to second Jack here. Preferences, institutional and otherwise, abound. Insured patients are preferred over uninsured patients. Private insurance is preferred over Medicaid. Compliant patients are preferred over refuseniks. Simple patients are preferred over complex ones. The latter two preferences are often baked into the compensation structure for doctors by the grace of their employers' metrics. On and on. It's preferences all the way down not turtles.

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Tom Huddle's avatar

Would not say that doesn’t happen. Doc preferences always tempt to diminish from what professional standards would ask of us; and we do not always come through. But the professional ask is always there.

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