MP40: Do doctors cherry pick?

Doctors should not cherry pick what information to give patients, court rules.

Doctors should no longer decide what information a patient should be given before agreeing to treatment, the UK Supreme Court has ruled in a historic judgment. The age of “medical paternalism” is over, and healthcare is now a partnership between patients and professionals, seven justices declared unanimously in the most important UK judgment on informed consent for 30 years. The judgment sweeps...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Do doctors need Deming?

Amongst the relatively new group of health professionals concerned with evaluating the quality of care there is confusion with regard to the terminology of programs for assessing that care. The new terminologies of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) certainly imply a greater involvement by "managers" of health care facilities. If this leads to the provision ...

Do Doctors Practice Defensive

Do Auctioneers Pick Optimal Reserve Prices?

We investigate how auctioneers set reserve prices in auctions. A well-established theoretical result, assuming risk neutrality of the seller, is that the optimal reserve price should not depend on the number of participating bidders. In a set of controlled laboratory experiments, we find that seller behavior often deviates from the theoretical benchmarks. We extend the existing theory to explor...