First, Do No Harm
Wait a minute, that’s the Hippocratic Oath. Congress took the Hypocritic one. First, Make No Sense.
GMU Econ Prof Tyler Cowen at NYT: The finances of forcing people to pay for what they don’t want. It’s a costly slippery tax slope.
NYT: Pelosi, Reid determined to shove through public option. Washington Post: Zombie-like resurrecvtion of the public option … what brought it back to life? Weekly Standard: That fait is not exacty accompli.
AP, detailing the latest backroom evolutions, ups and downs, back and forth in a tragi-comic piece, the basic upshot of which is there is no bill, it has no support, and the guy whose idea this was and wants it most isn’t really helping much.
Meanwhile, Patches Kennedy’s holy war with the Catholic Church over who’s pro-life and who’s pro-death. Boston Herald.
Separate, unrelated. Help me out here, I forget, while they’re been reinventing health care, did they remember to include regular intensive psychological testing for anyone even remotely associated with the medical industry?
Boston Herald: Six Harvard Medical School lab workers drank poisoned coffee. Follows on the heels of mouse-mess-obsessed Yale lab tech control freak accused of murdering pharmacology student. BU Med student accused of Craigslist killing and robberies. Gender-bending Harvard-educated rifle-wielding wife-murdering dermatologist Richard Sharpe ends it all in prison. Hooker-frequenting hammer-and-slash wife-murdering prominent allergist Dirk Greineder seeks a new trial. Harvard-trained doc who walked away from surgery does time on drug charges but skates on child rape charges when witness refuses to testify. You’ve got your nursing Angel of Death du jour. Nursing assistant accused of terrorising elderly. Drug docs to the stars! A rash of thom are staring at charges related to buried mistakes Jacko and Anna Nicole. All that’s before you get to the little remarked-upon regular run of docs who believe in hands-on examinations … whether their patients need it or not.
In a lot of those cases, the oath should have been “First, Do No Pharm.” But howbout, “First, Weed Out Barmy.” I know, I know, for every murderous, abusive wackjob there are thousands of caring, conscientious Mercedes-driving health care professionals who provide excellent care, even if they keep you waiting for a hour for the privilege of being treated like an idiot.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:10 am on Sunday, October 25, 2009
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October 25th, 2009 at 10:02 am
LOL
The Hippocritic Oath.
October 25th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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