Posted on 04/21/2013 3:24:41 PM PDT by Altariel
Kris Held,MD @kksheld
Drs are literally walking out of this talk on implementing,complying with Obamacare.We are men and women of the mind not mindless drones. 1:37 PM - 21 Apr 2013
Dr. Kristin Held, a San Antonio-based opthamologist, is live-tweeting the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Government Relations session. The conference is being held this weekend in San Francisco.
The topic of the Government Relations session is complying with and implementing Obamacare. Dr. Held doesn’t like what’s she’s hearing, and she’s not the only one. Indeed, almost all the doctors have walked out of the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
As one who spent 20 years in administration at a large (and famous) hospital...and as one who still has contacts in the administrative ranks at that hospital...and as one who recently had the experience I chronicled above...I can assure that we *are* "so screwed" if OsamaObamaCare is allowed to become fully implemented.
I think it.
When the government involves itself into medicine, it starts to control how much doctors earn, and what tests they can order, and what methods they can use for treatment.Thus, doctors become the equivalent of slaves.
Thanks Altariel. They don’t want to focus with Obamacare.
‘We are men and women of the mind not mindless drones’
I guess that they could not see their way clear on this Obama thingy.
reading between the lines
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Very possible. California is going to allow CNAs, auto mechanics, etc. perform abortions due to the shortage of doctors desiring to kill babies.
I knew there was a reason I pressed my Opthalmologist to get my cataract surgeries done by the end of 2012!! I had a bad feeling, and wanted all this sh*t outta the way before the ‘new year’ rang/clunked in....
We The People need to refuse OBayMeCare, the next Holocaust.
You got that right. They may decide that sex change surgery is more important than eye surgery any day now.
I don’t think many who pushed for 0bamaCare will vote the communists out of office. They are the permanant dependent underclass the RATS depend on for reelection.
The doctors and surgeons are the most recent to be hammered by the communists. The communists, when they get cancer, can either pass a law that prohibits cancer or go under the treatment of those they just got finished hammering. I just pray that the doctors remember about turnabout as fair play!
The Proctologists will make him a Case Study.
I know many doctors who have retired early or soon will be doing so. I did. Good. Apparently people must suffer now. Possibly this cause an upheaval. Not only are all LIBS mentally ill, they are useless subhumans who cause great suffering.
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art—if they desire to learn it—without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
—Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. From The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation, by Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.
Just as medical textbooks have come a long way from Hippocrates' archaic writings, the modern versions of the oath veer far from the classical. Enlarge Photo credit: Aldus Manutius/public domain
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
—Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.
Just refuse to treat politicians and their immediate families.
That would do it.
Won't matter, new Doctors have been indoctrinated. See what the Med Students did to Dr. Carson over at John Hopkins.
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