Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, who exposed gaps in health care, dies at 86
Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, whose pioneering research has discovered that older patients with the breast and pancreas cancer received poor treatment and that patients grilling their doctors during consultations receive better treatments, died on February 26 at his house in Newport Beach, California. He was 86 years old.The cause was colon cancer, said her daughter Lauren Greenfield.Dr. Greenfield was founder and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Irvine, and leader of the study on medical results, which involved over 22,000 patients and 500 doctors. In 1986 he established that doctors often ordered exorbitant and unnecessary tests and directed patients to a specialist when a general practitioner or a nurse could have provided equally good care.Al...










