(Video) What your doctor won’t disclose
WOULDN'T you want to know if your doctor was a paid spokesman for a drug company? Or held personal beliefs incompatible with the treatment you want? Right now, in the US at least, your doctor simply doesn't have to tell you about that. And when physician Leana Wen asked her fellow doctors to open up, the reaction she got was … unsettling.
Dr. Leana Wen is the Baltimore City Health Commissioner. A physician and public health advocate, she has traveled the world listening to patients' stories. Born in Shanghai, she was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a reporter with The New York Times' Nick Kristof, a fellow at the World Health Organization and the Director of Patient-Centered Care Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/leana_wen_what_your_doctor_won_t_disclose