The triad of goals and desires of medical professionals, consumers, and society reflect the struggle of the U.S. healthcare system to adapt to the conflicting expectations among consumers, healthcare providers, and public health and government. List the differing priorities of medical professionals, consumers, and society

Answer 1

Medical professionals have priorities to uphold professionalism and autonomy, while embracing science and technology through new advances in medical care. The consumer's priorities are prevention activities and to seek care when needed, to find appropriate information and guidance about health care, and to get the best value for health care services. Society at large has priorities to ensure patient access to health care services, to maintain appropriate costs of services, and to measure the effectiveness of health care services.