Medical secret shoppers hired by an insurance company are more likely to be used for economic profiling of providers than for quality improvement, which would be better served by secret shoppers hired by the provider.

Shared decision making requires that physicians acknowledge their responsibility to the patient, their responsibility to be true to their own clinical judgment about the patient's best interest, their accountability to society, and the uncertainty of the evidence.

Just as people frequently support political parties without endorsing their entire platforms, perhaps physicians can support a health care advocacy organization without agreeing with its screening guidelines.

Is it fair to have applicants to residency programs take personality tests? Are personality tests effective predictors of performance as a physician?

Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?

Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?

Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?

Is it fair to have applicants to residency programs take personality tests? Are personality tests effective predictors of performance as a physician?

Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?

Match applicants and residency program directors may express their interest in each other, but the cardinal rule of the match is they cannot ask the other how they will be ranked.