The doctor as patient: better informed but similar in behaviour.

Similarly, despite World Health Organization guidelines suggesting only 10%-15% of women require cesarean section, the researchers found that 29% of physicians giving birth had the procedure, a rate only slightly below that of other patients (31%). Graph: The cesarean rate among physician and nonphysician patients was similar in a recent analysis of US military data. One lesson physicians can learn from this paper, said Jena, is that providing information to a patient about their health and treatments is just one step in providing them with appropriate care. [Extracted from the article]