The doctors listed a number of reasons they had shunned care, including worries that they'd be stigmatized and an inability to find the time.
While most doctors shun such care and question its merits and reliability, Americans are voting with their feet and pocketbooks.
She introduces us to proponents of "D.I.Y. parenting": home-birthers, home-schoolers, carriers of cloth-diapered children in slings, who shun day care, vaccines and jarred baby food.
DAWN SHERLING Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., May 29, 2011 To the Editor: Despite Drs. Peter B. Bach and Robert Kocher's premise that huge medical school debts "are why so many doctors shun primary care," I think that this is open for debate.
Huge medical school debts — doctors now graduate owing more than $155,000 on average, and 86 percent have some debt — are why so many doctors shun primary care in favor of highly paid specialties, where there are incentives to give expensive treatments and order expensive tests, an important driver of rising health care costs.
Terrified of stigma, those at risk gay or otherwise may shun health-care advice, let alone testing.
It would also be nice to have a society that doesn't expect the worst from you and friends who are not going to shun you for caring about your education.
Even when research finds that complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) or approaches are effective, these still may be shunned by health care's major stakeholders.
In addition, Ms. Pascoe said, many home health agencies now seek patients who need just a few weeks of care, but shun "long-term patients" -- for example, stroke patients with a long rehabilitation period -- who require months of care.
Others try to skimp by and waste the energy of the best years of their life in pursuit of a literal 4-Hour Work Week existence where they shun responsibility and only care about themselves.
