Hiding Behind High Value Care: A Podcast with Vinny Arora and Chris Moriates

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Sep 19, 2019 · 42m

You're the attending physician on a teaching service. Your resident says we shouldn't order a CT because CT's are over-used for this condition, and represent overuse, waste, and low-value care. In this case, however, you suspect that's not the resident's real reason. The real reason behind the resident's decision is that they are serial minimizers - residents who make little of potentially important findings. You feel they might be hiding their minimizing behind the sexy, trendy notion of providing "high value care." Does this sound familiar to you? It did to me. I've been in the awkward…