03/11/2026
🚩Free to read for a limited time: In this month's spotlight article, Azib et al. found that surgeons are relatively unlikely to acquiesce to potentially unhealthy patient requests, unless the patient persists with multiple return visits.
"Although surgeons seem able to navigate around direct manifestations of patient distress, they could increase their awareness of indirect manifestations of patient distress (such as a greater number of return visits) to further mitigate the risk of overdiagnosis and overtreatment," the authors write.
"Making the right choice of protecting patients from unnecessary harm may seem easy when we consider these dilemmas from the comfort of our office chairs, but it’s all too easy to lose track of benefit-harm boundaries during a busy clinic, with the cloud of patient satisfaction surveys constantly hanging over us," writes M. Daniel Wongworawat MD.
The article is free to read until March 18: https://ow.ly/j11i50Ysww9
The Editor's Spotlight/Take 5 interview is free to read all month: https://ow.ly/6zka50Yswwa
