British doctors admit to ageism
Extract:
"Doctors in Britain regularly discriminate against older patients by denying them tests and treatments they offer to younger people, research shows today.
GPs, heart specialists and doctors who care for the elderly were all found to be influenced by a patient's age when making their recommendations -and older doctors were more likely to discriminate than younger doctors.
Older patients are less likely to be referred to a cardiologist and given heart treatments than patients under 65.
The study in Quality and Safety in Health Care, a specialist publication from the British Medical Journal, found that half of doctors in each of the professional groups treated elderly patients differently. "
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
British doctors admit to ageism
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