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Monday, 29 March 2010
Desiree Scoggins

No Such Thing as an Average Patient; Government and Insurance Imposed Treatment Guidelines Have Doctors in an Uproar.

Written by  Desiree Scoggins

Check out the observations made by doctors around the country and give us your take:

“If it’s necessary to respond to guidelines rather than what you see, feel and hear when you’re evaluating a person, then perhaps you’re going to do something that isn’t really the right thing.”

“We’re the bad guys now because we help people live to 85. So now we’re trying to change healthcare because people are living too long.”

“When you have an illness and you want an accurate diagnosis and treatment, you want a specialist, not a GP”

“Government is in the process of duplicating everything that managed care did for the last 15 years that was reviled by everybody.”

“We are now being told that we take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously.” (all quote come from Betsy McCaughey, Wall Street Journal, OpEd, Nov 6, 2009)

What do you think?

 

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