Whether a high-profile patient goes to a special, private office or a regular hospital, there's the issue of the medical care itself: the evaluation and making decisions about treatment. Here is where VIP syndrome may happen—and in this case, "VIP" stands for "Very Important Patient."
She spent months investigating this phenomenon at one Boston hospital. She says that in VIP syndrome, the power differential between doctor and patient can shift. Care providers may defer more to the patient's requests, even if these requests aren't good for them.
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