Interfering with physicians' ability to prescribe treatments for patients with severe pain caused by arthritis and back injuries, for example, could lead to devastating consequences for these patients.
They would compromise physicians' ability to participate in new models of care delivery, which the editorial correctly noted could help coordinate patient care and reduce costs in the Medicare system.
The lawsuit calls the law "an affront both to patients' right to be free from unnecessary medical procedures and physicians' ability to act in what they believe is the best interests of their patients and in accordance with their ethical obligations".
Primary care physicians' ability to provide effective health behavior change advice might be leveraged by linking to available community resources.
To improve physicians' ability to discriminate tuberculous from malignant pleural effusions through a simple clinical algorithm that avoids pleural biopsy.
In conclusion, the performance of point-of-care ultrasonography in addition to the traditional physical examination improves students', residents', and attending physicians' ability to detect splenomegaly.
Narrow indications, which are without a sound rational basis, will in this era of constant oversight by third party payers affect physicians' ability to manage patients with psoriasis.
