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To critically examine how disease prestige shapes medical priorities and advocate against the hierarchical valuation of patient suffering.

February 1, 2018The Medical Journal of AustraliaOpen Access

Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering

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To critically examine how disease prestige shapes medical priorities and advocate against the hierarchical valuation of patient suffering.
Ethical and theoretical analysis of clinical prestige hierarchies and their influence on healthcare prioritization.
Identifies that clinical attention and social legitimacy are disproportionately granted based on perceived disease prestige rather than need.
Concludes that equitable healthcare requires eliminating status-based hierarchies so that all forms of patient suffering receive proportionate care.

Implication

Commentary demonstrates how disease prestige skews resource distribution across patient populations, indicating that suffering must be treated without condition bias.

Abstract

Disease prestige and the hierarchy of sufferingSuffering should not be hierarchical, and care should not be predicated on the prestige that a disease attracts

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Louise Stone (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d39841024216094050c2f https://doi.org/10.5694/mja17.00503

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Implication

Commentary demonstrates how disease prestige skews resource distribution across patient populations, indicating that suffering must be treated without condition bias.

Abstract

Disease prestige and the hierarchy of sufferingSuffering should not be hierarchical, and care should not be predicated on the prestige that a disease attracts

Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering

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Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering

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