We still do not know which patients will benefit most.
And there is reason to think that patients actually benefit from teaching.
The reason is that many patients do not benefit from such procedures.
It was believed that the patients themselves could not benefit from group discussion.
What factors make it more likely that an individual patient will benefit from such a treatment?
Under normal circumstances, patients benefit from care close to home, in their own countries at any rate.
And the patients will benefit at the end of the day, too.
For example, patients benefit when their doctor and other health care professionals have access to the latest research.
That patient might benefit the most, he added, but would also have the least to offer society in terms of productive years.
Patients benefit because they are getting services at discounted rates.