We're From The Government, And We Want To Pry Into Your Most Private And Personal Issues

The infantilization of America continues apace with this newest intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship. The idea that physicians need idiotic bureaucratic direction to treat their patients is ridiculous.

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First of all because the reality is that these instructions, just like most of the blather coming out of officialdom these days will be absorbed into the vast electronic wasteland that is modern medicine. You will fill out a form, drone on to a clerk or a nurse practitioner, and the data, just like most of your medical file, will be lost in the insanity that is electronic record keeping.

Second -- and much more important -- diktats from on high should never be a part of anyone's relationship with his physician. It's simply none of anyone else's business. What's next? Priests and rabbis and ministers will be given a list of approved questions for their congregants in need?

posted by CBD at 12:15 PM

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