Yet claimant lawyers and treating doctors say these examiners often understate workers' ailments to win business from the insurers who pay them.
By commodifying service and treating doctors like assembly-line workers, a long-term relationship between doctor and patient has been undermined.
He added: "She just wants doctors to be aware when they are treating doctors to give them really good treatment and they have to be aware they are a patient and they don't know everything.
Dr. Palmer still practices, as an associate director of Massachusetts Physician Health Program, treating doctors who are mentally sick substance abusers, a position that could provide rich material for a novelist.
The statement continued: "His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months.
"His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months.
"With Kennedy, the treating doctors were wrong about the entrance and exit wounds" of the bullet-damaged skull, said Dr. Baden, who was chairman of the forensic pathology panel of the House of Representatives select committees on the assassinations of Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Scale for numbers of FIB previously performed by the treating doctors.
Instead of treating doctors to lunch, he bought them sodas, pocketing the difference to feed his family and buy land.
In one published case, CT-scan results revealing possible tuberculosis in a 70-year-old patient somehow didn't reach the treating doctors.
As with any retrospective analysis, this study is limited by the data entered by the treating doctors and nurses, although some of the variables used are not subject to data entry problems (including the patient demographics, presentation events and times).
