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Medicine and Public Issues: Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel Nonabandonment: A Central Obligation for Physicians Ann Intern Med 1995; 122: 368-374 [Abstract] [Full text]

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Cherry Picking clients

Kevin D. Kvisle   (22 January 2008)

Cherry Picking clients 22 January 2008
Kevin D. Kvisle, - - Send rapid response to journal: Re: Cherry Picking clients sacca9nuts{at}hotmail.com Kevin D. Kvisle	Although the article may have been about end-of-life, there is an occasional abandonment of patients that do not fit the profile of the types of patients a doctor prefers to have as clients. Opiate dependent patients are commonly excused from GPs offices in the area I live in. Such patients have often been problematic for doctors, but not all are. It is clearly discrimination to lump them all together as being problematic, and is therefore inexcusable to simply say "this clinic does not service opiate dependent patients". Conflict of Interest: None declared