Chen says that patients don ’ t have the medical information they need to make sound judgments and choices. As a consequence, medical providers (i.e. doctors), not patients, are the principal decision makers when it comes the kind and amount of medical treatment. The result is large volumes of expensive, redundant, aggressive, and very likely ineffective treatments.
陳美霞指出，由於醫療資訊上的不對等，病人並沒有充分的判斷和選擇能力，因此醫療服務種類和數量的主要決定者，其實是醫療提供者（醫生）而非病人，其結果就是 — — 昂貴、積極（但可能無效）、重複、大量的醫療行為，在醫療市場中不斷上演。