Posted on 02/28/2024 12:36:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
Call into any doctor's office or hospital and you will be connected with a low level clerk who has complete and unfettered access to your medical records.
This is not even a new thing. It has been the case for decades. It is just easier now since there is a computerized data base.
And as to there not being a nationwide data base of medical records.... Ever hear of Epic?
Oh please just stop. You are wrong, wrong, wrong.
And yes, I’m quite familiar with Epic.
I’ve worked in hospital IT since 1997, and for Epic’s largest competitor for the last 14 years.
I can assure you that while Epic, and other EMRs, are used nationwide, none of them could remotely considered to be a “national database”.
Augie,
Don’t be so obtuse. Just be less obtuse.
BTW - anyone who completes an application for Life Insurance signs an authorization for the insurance company to have full access to the Medical Information Bureau.
See this article, for example: https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-to-access-the-medical-information-bureau-2615511
Note to FReepers - Augie is WRONG on this.
Last time I was put under my anesthesiologist said he had to give me the amount of fentanyl an elephant would take. I use marijuana daily. So this checks out.
If your statement was factual, then there would no longer be any federal impediments to recreational Marijuana use. The Deep State would have made sure those laws were done away with, but that hasn't happened.
Most of the users I'm aware of despise commies and jackasses such as Soros, but that means little as I tend not to associate with liberals.
Get better propaganda.
Sounds like if you want them to give you more pain and knockout meds, tell them you smoke weed.
“But does anyone really believe that any more?”
Figure that ANYTHING you say to a doctor will find its way to government and if you’re like most of us here (including myself), those are people you’d rather not be giving information to.
“But does anyone really believe that any more?”
AND...if they want conservative patients to be truthful, perhaps there should be LAWS preventing disclosure to the government, even if there’s a court order for it.
It is up to the DOCTORS to push for that - otherwise, they’ll simply have to take our word.
lol.
I told the anesthesiologist before my colonoscopy that he should be aware my tolerance is high.
He laughed it off and the procedure continued.
When I woke up they told me I tried to get up and walk away halfway through.
Then they believed me.
Big pharma makes money by inventing and selling drugs, equipment and procedures-
I’m not seeing any of that going on with weed.
It seems like competition to me.
Both sides are polarizing. I’d give the potheads an edge.
The case of two bong hits made me a psychotic murderer! Obv weed being legal is the proximate cause but hardly the sole problem with that judgment.
Read what you just wrote.
“applies for life insurance”
“signs an authorization”
Nothing about that equates to “full and unfettered access to your medical records”.
Note to FReepers - Honest Nigerian isn’t.
...users have a higher requirement for midazolam
I really hate this stuff, but it's a little odd that an anesthesiologist is implying that he uses it. Maybe that's still standard, but I was always under the impression that it was part of the "standard cocktail" that would be used for minor procedures that didn't require the attendance of a specialist anesthesiologist.
It's bad enough on its own, but combined with weed it sounds like a guaranteed bad trip.
Always smart when going under to tell the Docs everything, your life depends on it. Also, the Docs and Police nowadays don’t give a rats pattotie if you use weed, it’s a non issue if you use weed, it’s only an issue if your illness is possibly weed related, or if your driving while stoned. It’s now legal in Ohio and you can walk down any street and smoke a joint if ya want. I’ve not seen anyone do this yet, but the news says the yahoos in downtown Cincy are stinking up certain streets and parks around the bar areas.
Incorrect of course.
A database that is used nationwide is indeed a national data base.
And yes, the clerks all have access to it, because they have to, how do you think Mr Hospital IT Guy, that the data in the system is entered and retrieved?
All of your low level clerks have access to the health data files.
I am sorry reality offends you.
He said you had to sign a authorization for the LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY to have access.
The low level clerks at the hospital do indeed have free and unfettered access to the data base that you insist does not exist.
It is not at all attractive how you lie about people.
I highly recommend it for migraines and neuropathy. Works better than anything I have been prescribed.
Snoop Dogg?
“Big Pharma has latched onto marijuana in a big way.”
I doubt that - it’s not patentable.
Does Big Pharma own grows or dispensaries?
“If there is one person who you should definitely not lie to about any drug use, it’s your anesthesiologist.”
Well, duh. Like he said, ANY drug - legal or illegal, medicinal or recreational.
You are misinformed. Big Pharma is spending billions to come up with their own breeds of cannabis.
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