Depending upon your political views and your lifestyle choices, the most important fact you may want to know about your primary care physician isn’t where your doctor went to school, but what political party they belong to.
That’s what a study by Yale University suggests. Researchers there wanted to know if a physician’s political beliefs might have an effect on the medical care or advice they hand out to patients.
According to the Fresno Bee, researchers created two groups of physicians: One composed of registered Democrats, the other of registered Republicans. They were then asked questions about their advice to patients on matters that could be considered politically charged.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
