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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Services to Encourage More Involved, Informed Patients
Description:
Host: Bruce Japsen
Guest: Jeff Belkora, PhD
Informed decision-making involves helping patients arrive at the questions that can ultimately help their doctors deliver the best possible medical care. Jeff Belkora, director of Decision Services at the University of California San Francisco Breast Care Center, a demonstration program of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, tells host Bruce Japsen about ways to put more information and choices into patients' hands and the possible benefits of doing so to physicians and patient care.