Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Bargaining With Cancer Patients About Treatment
When a doctor and a patient discuss treatments, is it a conversation or a negotiation?
Surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York are enlisting techniques taught at Harvard Business School to advise men facing tough decisions about prostate cancer.
Behfar Ehdaie liked giving his prostate-cancer patients hopeful news: While they had a low-grade version of the illness, they wouldn’t need immediate treatment, let alone major surgery. . .