Doctors want to deny smoking expensive care – Sveriges Radio

Almost every other doctor believe smokers should be denied the most advanced health care, a new study from Karolinska Institutet. This approach runs counter to the health-care law, said assistant professor of medical ethics.

The study has examined what doctors and other health professionals and the general public thinks about the patients’ own responsibility in disease .

– Doctors say a greater extent, than had been expected, that it is prepared to punish patients for past sins health. They are less likely to offer smokers a life-prolonging treatment compared to non-smokers, says Niklas Juth who is assistant professor of medical ethics.

Doctors may not punish patients for past sins through to deny them care.

It is the care needed to be applied. The study includes 600 physicians and is published in BMC Medical Ethics show that 46 per cent of GPs would deny precisely smoking expensive care.

General doctors had in which the same values ​​as the general public, which is problematic, says Niklas Juth.

– It goes against the health care law. One should simply do not get to do it. Even sinners should receive care. They will share the care needed.

There was also , a group of doctors who did not think anyone would have the more expensive care. But they were far fewer.

It was also found that GPs were more stringent than an oncologist.

Can you understand that GPs have this perspective?

– I have great sympathy for the GPs of the hits of course many types of patients and they know that you have to prioritize and that money and resources are not enough to everything and everyone, says Niklas Juth.

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