General practitioners have reported difficulty resisting patient expectations, and many need to practice new consultation scripts before they stop ordering expensive x-rays at a patient's request [ 27].
The number of antibiotics being prescribed by GPs is falling thanks to calls to review their practices and resist patients' demands for them, and also as a result of financial incentives that NHS England introduced last year, which has cut the number handed out by 5.3%.
This model examined time to first DAIDS Grade 3/4 ALT and/or AST elevations in RESIST patients, using 96+ week data.
One GP thought better access to private radiology services made it more appropriate to resist patients' demands for radiography (They can go themselves and get an X-ray, if they really want to).
He now resists helping patients to manage their lives better.
Earlier this month, the CQC confirmed it had received claims that the hospital had resisted sending patients for treatment at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital – a unit that would remain open under the original NHS restructuring plans.
In fact, attempts to explicitly integrate physical and mental health treatment were resisted by patients when it encroached on their freedom to talk about other factors, outside of their physical health, that might be linked to their mental health.
Medicalization is understood to be expanding rather than contracting in modern life, and while it can be sought or resisted by patients, doctors, or other actors in the health field, it is considered largely harmful and costly to individuals and societies: pathologising normal behaviour, disempowering individuals, decontextualising experience, and depoliticising social problems.
Still, she resisted in-patient treatment out of fear that "if I check myself into the hospital, no one is ever going to read me again because I'm that crazy person who checked herself into the hospital," she told me.
Clinicians should resist sidelining patient experience measures as too subjective or mood-orientated, divorced from the 'real' clinical work of measuring and delivering patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
