Democratic and Republican physicians provide different care on politicized health issues

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  1. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    Political beliefs have been shown to spill over into nonpolitical domains, such as consumer spending, choice of romantic partner, and job hiring. The latest evidence suggests that political beliefs predict the professional decisions of primary care physicians. On politicized health issues, like marijuana and abortion, physicians' partisan identity is highly correlated with their treatment decisions. Because physicians regularly interact with patients on politically sensitive health issues and because the medical profession is increasingly politicized (e.g., state governments are regulating politicized aspects of medicine), it is necessary to understand how doctors’ own political worldviews may impact their actions in the medical examination room.
    Recent study investigated whether physicians’ own political views affect their treatment decisions on these issues. The records of over 20,000 primary care physicians in 29 US states were linked to a voter registration database, obtaining the physicians’ political party affiliations. Researchers then surveyed a sample of Democratic and Republican primary care physicians. Respondents evaluated nine patient vignettes, three of which addressed especially politicized health issues (marijuana, abortion, and firearm storage). Physicians rated the seriousness of the issue presented in each vignette and their likelihood of engaging in specific management options. On the politicized health issues—and only on such issues—Democratic and Republican physicians differed substantially in their expressed concern and their recommended treatment plan. Results show that physician partisan bias can lead to unwarranted variation in patient care. Awareness of how a physician’s political attitudes might affect patient care is important to physicians and patients alike.

    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/28/1606609113.full
     
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  3. wellwisher Banned Banned

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    Most of the social changes are induced by Democrats, thereby causing Democratic doctors to more often substitute the needs of the latest fad, for traditional care. Which ever party drives a social change, that involves doctors, will find more cooperation by like minded Doctors, who will try to accommodate. Republicans are conservative, which means tractional and not the latest fad. Liberalism is about change, for the sake of the party; expand voter base.

    In this election cycle in the US, you will hear of republicans breaking ranks with Trump. However, you will not hear of any Democrats doing the same with Hillary. This not because Hillary is honest and competent. This is because Republicans stand for self reliance, which allows more independent thinking. Democrats preach village, and are afraid of their leadership because the witch doctors of propaganda play dirty.

    For example, Matt Lauer, who is a prominent TV news personality in US, and known Democrat, dared to question Hillary on her scandals in an old time journalists way. This led to a lot of peer pressure on him, which has impacted his career due to people at the top. He was suppose to throw Hillary softballs, like I like you hair or how is your granddaughter doing, but got too deep about her scandals. Hillary was not prepared for a real interview that was not rehearsed. Now Lauer is the one being criticized for being unprepared. In liberal speak this he was not properly unprepared to help her cheat. Doctors in the Democratic party know what will happen to them if they leave the plantation; hobble.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/a...ection-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html?_r=0

    I am not trying to change the topic, but rather show why differences in care seem obvious in studies.
     
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  5. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, but you're so wrong it all amounts to the same thing.

    So here's the deal:

    I honestly don't think, Wellwisher, you're capable of supporting that paragraph. You really ought to try someday, so why not today? Go on, it's okay. Make a reasonable argument and we'll all offer a reasonable assessment.

    When you put no effort into your attempt to be insulting, people notice, and it's why nobody likes you, nobody trusts you, and the general opinion seems to be that pretty much any community you are a part of would be better off if you weren't. The biggest tragedy in all of this is that you choose such outcomes. This is how you wish to be seen; were that not the case, you would have altered your behavior at some point over the years.

    Your racist language, your sexist hatred, your general lack of human decency, the disqualifying ignorance: I mean, I get that you feel better about the semi-anonymous nature of the internet, but still, that your lifetime's work is a cancer upon humanity is a choice, and it is your choice, and this choice is how people measure you.

    Stop projecting your own despised beliefs onto other people; the self-loathing is probably the last human connection anyone at this site has to you: It is hard to understand why anyone would denigrate themselves the way you do, and thus seems extraordinarily tragic.
     
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  7. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    True. Increases in civil rights, improvements in health care, reduction in crime and new discoveries in science are induced by progressives and liberals, and they most often identify with democrats.
    You mean like using those new fads like antibiotics and chemotherapy instead of traditional leeches and bloodletting?
    Correct. She is merely more honest and competent than Trump.

    Hillary is a very typical politician - has changed her mind many times, is often honest but often not, interested in preserving civil rights as long as they don't get in the way of her career. Trump is a misogynistic, racist xenophobe who sees the Presidental election solely as a means to enrich himself. Thus sane Republicans are breaking ranks with a toxic and incompetent choice; most Democrats are sticking with a competent but flawed candidate.
    And had he done the same to Trump, then there would have been no issue.

    The reason he was (rightly) criticized is that he drilled Hillary on her scandals and threw Trump softballs. Had he done both (which moderators are doing now) he would have been lauded.
     
  8. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Part of what stood out to a lot of Democratic supporters was not simply the fact of the email question, but that Lauer appeared to take sides. To wit, he never asked whether Mr. Trump's behavior was "disqualifying". Lauer came out against Clinton, and ended up so utterly failing at everything else he looked like he was for Trump. I did somewhere in the shockwave response period encounter a point that it's true, Lauer isn't a "political" journalist, and therefore doesn't know how to do this kind of interview; and that really shows in the kindest interpretation of his demand that Hillary Clinton rush through the substantive answers after he had chosen to waste so much time trying to score a point off her for Donald Trump blithely scandalizing.
     

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