Wall Street Journal On Medication Reminders and Dealing With Your Doctor’s Potential Conflicts of Interest
Two Issues With Immediate Impact On Your Day-To-Day Healthcare
Two topics that could significantly affect the healthcare of anyone taking medication or anyone under a doctor’s care, providing medication reminders and medical information via cell phones and devising the best plan for handling a doctor’s potential conflict of interest,1 are each the focus of separate Wall Street Journal articles featured in today’s AlignMap2 post, Medication Adherence Reminders and Doctor-Patient Communication In The Wall Street Journal.3
Spoiler: I agree with the WSJ assessment that text messaging by cell phone holds special advantages for the enhancement of medication adherence, but believe their take on dealing with the doctor’s conflict of interest is impractical and over-simplistic.
The link to the AlignMap post is
Footnotes
- E.g., a physician with a financial interest in an orthopedic device he developed might be tempted to prescribe it unnecessarily or a doctor might advise patients to undergo a CT scan at a given facility which he owns ~back~
- AlignMap is my professional web site and blog that focus on patient compliance, also known as adherence to treatment ~back~
- The Wall Street Journal articles were originally published 20 November 2007, during the AlignMap blog’s holiday hiatus, which accounts for the delay in their appearance in the AlignMap blog. ~back~
