http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-worry-about-patient-satisfaction/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 19:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-worry-about-patient-satisfaction/comment-page-1/#comment-55750 Ken Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:34:47 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9518#comment-55750 artk: you seem to think that patients throwing up and being unable to eat and enduring pain is something doctors shouldn't be concerned with. Do you really think the size of the tumor is all that matters? Doesn't patient comfort count for anything? artk: you seem to think that patients throwing up and being unable to eat and enduring pain is something doctors shouldn’t be concerned with. Do you really think the size of the tumor is all that matters? Doesn’t patient comfort count for anything?

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-worry-about-patient-satisfaction/comment-page-1/#comment-55748 artk Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:13 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9518#comment-55748 John: This fits right in with your puff piece on CTCA. Their investment in image and gloss may help their bottom line but it doesn't help their patients get better. John: This fits right in with your puff piece on CTCA. Their investment in image and gloss may help their bottom line but it doesn’t help their patients get better.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-worry-about-patient-satisfaction/comment-page-1/#comment-55740 Devon Herrick Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:57:03 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9518#comment-55740 Apparently a good “bedside manner” was more important 100 years ago before physicians had much in the way of life-saving medical technology to heal patients. Apparently a good “bedside manner” was more important 100 years ago before physicians had much in the way of life-saving medical technology to heal patients.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-worry-about-patient-satisfaction/comment-page-1/#comment-55737 Joe S. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:42 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9518#comment-55737 John, you are going to get even less satisfaction after ObamaCare passes. John, you are going to get even less satisfaction after ObamaCare passes.

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