Consensual medicine and the therapeutic partnership: reducing the costs of defensive medicine and litigation.

Marking the start of our 25th Anniversary Year, Marcel Frenkel, MD, MBA, Founder and Editor Emeritus of this Journal, returns with a prescription that has interest for all players in the healthcare system. Though he focuses on the costs of defensive medicine and malpractice litigation, he proposes a significant change in medicine's cultural approach that can bring universal rewards: empower the patient.