American Hospitals and their Priorities
by Scott MacStravic
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Frederick Navarro wrote @ May 30th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
As you say, 95% of hospital focus is on sickness. The same is true with doctors. Twenty percent of hospital admissions come from patients who have poor compliance–not illness. Behavior is their problem, not disease. Yet there is no real research on how to identify potentially non-compliant patients, or outreach efforts designed to improve compliance. Patients coming into hospitals or doctor’s offices are never given a psychological assessment to identify their potential for compliance. And it is understandable. Why would an organization invest in something that will reduce their revenues by 20%? If the promotion of health is the focus, both the AHA and the AMA are the wrong folks to lead. They are not trained in health–they are trained in disease and make their living on disease.
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