Dr. John Schumann, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. His story was a finalist in the 2011 Costs of Care Contest, and will be featured on American Public Media’s Marketplace. This post first appeared on Cost of Care’s blog on February 27, 2012.

Guest Blog: Costs of Care...and Coercion?

John Schumann | February 28, 2012
Nora, a third year medical student, came to me in moral distress. Ms. DiFazio, one of the hospitalized patients on her Internal Medicine rotation, was frightened to undergo an invasive (and expensive) medical procedure: cardiac catheterization.

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