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Multidisciplinary Clinics in Oncology: The Hidden Pitfalls

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Health care decisions have traditionally been made between a patient and his or her physician. However, as disease management becomes more long-term and complex, as understanding of biology evolves, as therapies improve, and as outcomes become multidimensional, one realizes how limited is the relevance of one's own specialty in the overall management of a disease in general, and an individual patient in particular. This has led to a shift toward a "multidisciplinary" approach for decision-making in several health care settings, including in oncology.¹ The perceived benefits of multidisciplinary clinics (MDCs) are self-evident and do not merit wider discussion. It is . . . [Click for More]