Posted on 06/15/2015 8:53:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
As America hears of more doctors leaving the profession, the head of a patient-centered national health care organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, sees both political parties in Washington making matters worse.
“Huge things are happening under the surface that people don’t understand,” says Twila Brase, a public health nurse and the founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom in this 33 minute video interview with The Daily Caller. “The power of the doctor is becoming subsumed by the government.”
America is moving, from Brase’s perspective, from the charitable human “mission of medicine” to a cold, sterile “business of health care.” Doctors face increasing “ethical dilemmas” as their Hippocratic Oath requires them to do no harm to their patient and keep confidence.
Yet, she says government mandates are requiring doctors to breach confidences, surrender private information to outsiders and seek approval for treatment choices in order to be reimbursed. The third party of government is replacing the third party influence of insurers with a pernicious influence, Brase says.
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I don’t trust medical professionals except my older family doctors, anymore.
Too many prognoses are being made in favor of elective surgeries and promises you’ll be so much better, but then you have to sign waivers releasing them of all accountability for their advice.
Over the last 50 years I’ve watched as doctors and lawyers have bumped heads over who has the most toys and money. It looks like the lawyers have won by controlling the legislators and made it illegal for the doctors to win. Que the party scene from “Atlas Shrugged”.
LOL - it started with the “power of the doctor”, indoctrinated in medical school. The power is supposed to be with the individual. Just another case of elitists denying humanity to their fellows. . .exactly what the United States of American was founded to oppose.
My MIL was taken to the ER in March from her assistant living apartment with a painful pinched nerve. After spending the entire day in ER the doctor told us Medicare would not allow him to admit her and that she no longer could live in her apartment because she needed more care. Social services arrived in ER and told us a local nursing home would take her. Medicare requires a 3 day stay in the hospital before they pay for respet at nursing home. Family could not take her home with them because bathrooms are on the 2nd floors of their homes. MIL had to stay 2 months at the nursing home before we found another assisted living apartment that provides more care. Her total bill was over $12,000.00. Took a big bite out of her savings. I’m sure a few years back, the ER Dr. would have kept her overnight in the hospital and her family Dr. would have stepped in after that. How could the ER Dr. and Medicare determine she could no longer live where she was living? Only answer is Obamacare.
Very interesting angle. I think you on correct that in many instances the only way to get the courts to act against the personal biases of politically motivated judges is to force them into a conflict with their own previous decisions.
“but physicians tend to have deeper pockets”
I assure you that most physicians don’t have deep enough pockets to fund the legal costs of such a challenge. There are physician-attorneys out there, and perhaps one of them will take up the challenge.
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This is, unfortunately, absolutely true. Medical training has greatly shifted. Morale amongst physicians is, in my experience, quite low. We've dramatically shifted the system, but have not reduced costs. All we did is shift where the money goes, and now a greater and growing percentage is going to administrators and bureaucrats.
I spoke to a colleague recently (in his late 60s) who told me he was up until 3am finishing his computer ‘notes’. These notes require clicking through multiple computerized fields and are very often populated with purposefully redundant information (to fulfill billing requirements), but at the same time contain less useful information - because more time is spent on clicking through the bs than in thinking and constructing a diagnosis and plan. If non-physicians knew what was really happening in medicine, many would be shocked.
If government is going to be responsible for diagnosis, approval, dispensing, authorizing treatment, etc. then those “experts” that are involved in the process should be subject to the legal ramifications as well. The whole damned lot of them. FDA, HHS, Medicare, all those goons and the experts they hire to control peoples’ lives.
They should be subject to malpractice lawsuits, misdiagnosis, wrongful treatments at both the agency AND personal levels. If they want to meddle, then they need to have some frigging skin in the game.
Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, brother of Rahm, a so-called Medical Ethicist, published this very concept in a professional article, January, 2009. Even with a graphic for non-readers...
What did you think I was talking about?
They may not have voted for the actual law, but so many of them seem fine with funding it.
Thanks for the ping!
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