<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 March 2012 23:46, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
An ob/gyn who cares not for the mother's<br>
health so long as the baby is delivered, is an ob/gyn whose<br>
customers die more often.<br></blockquote></div><br>Theoretically, there might be physicians who could have the opposite interest. <br><br>For instance, let us say one who does abortions but not deliveries, or one who runs a goodwill risk as to the accuracy of his prenatal diagnoses if a defective child is brought to termin, but does not really face adverse consequences if the aborted child ends up being perfectly healthy.<br>
<br>Best way to deal with that? I tell my partners and associates "we offer advice, not recommendations". Advice is: your chances are x%, your possible rewards/costs are within this range. Recommendations are: you should/should not go for it. <br>
<br>An entirely different issue is whether somebody who is paid to provide you with the means to take an informed decision should be allowed to mislead you or keep the information for themselves. This is of course abhorrent in logical, legal and ethical terms.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>