[MOL] Physicians Say Quality of Care Declining

[Joicy <joicy@erols.com>]

This is NOT encouraging...love and prayers, Joicy

Physicians Say Quality of Care Declining
    [10/12/2000; Reuters Health]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite advances in medicine,
a majority of physicians in the US and a large percentage
of doctors in major industrialized countries say that the quality
of care they are able to provide patients has deteriorated over
the past 5 years, according to survey results released Thursday
morning. US doctors in the survey voiced concern over inadequate
levels of nursing staff. In other industrialized countries, physicians
indicated that they feel constrained by a lack of resources,
including a shortage of hospital beds and diagnostic equipment. ``Physicians
think that care is deteriorating--and across countries--that's
pretty powerful,'' said Dr. Robert J. Blendon, of the Harvard
School of Public Health.  Survey findings were released by The
Commonwealth Fund at a briefing in Washington, DC.

The full article can be found at:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001012/hl/physicians_2.html

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