The reasons for increases in medical costs…
Willie Hamilton, professor of primary care diagnostics, and CMO LV, FP and EFS considers the reasons for increases in medical costs… So, health has largely escaped the Comprehensive Spending Review, including health research. Good news for us medics - and better even for medical researchers. Which leads to a topic discussed recently. The question was posed, 'What drives the relentless increase in medical costs?' This was against the background of medical cost inflation always being higher than general inflation. Of course, my first concern was to make it VERY clear that it's not doctors lining their pockets, at the cost…
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