Doctors often give treatment to patients that they would not use on themselves...

Many doctors recommend treatments to their patients that they would not use themselves, a US study suggests.

Experts asked nearly 1,000 US physicians to consider a medical scenario and pick a treatment.

But when doctors were asked to imagine themselves as the patient their answers differed significantly.

Doctors were far more likely to opt for a therapy carrying a higher chance of death but better odds of side-effect free survival, for example.

But for their patients, doctors tended to pick a treatment that erred on the side of survival, regardless of the quality of life, Archives of Internal Medicine reports. More...

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