[T Ruth]

Improvement in care was NOT the reason for the computerization of records. Total control of medicine and of the population was the raison d'être. Centralized record keeping wipes out any confidentiality and is another method of knowing where everyone is and of determining whether the government is served by allowing this person or that one to get treatment. Electronically controlled are also, of course, eminently hackable and someone it is going to occur to someone that the system can be used to give out false information and get someone or some group killed.

Exactly. Since my doctor's practice installed electronic medical records over six years ago, I haven't been back.

[arthurus]

I am on Medicare and do not have a choice of doctors else I would not go to a Moslem. That said, I take care of the crotchets of old age myself with diet and supplements and exercise. I go to the doctor once a year for the insurance required checkup to keep the Supplemental insurance in force. Doc gets ALL the blood tests each time and I have learned how to read the numbers. He gives me a copy. He doesn’t care that I do my own. He collects his fees for the checkup which is why I get all the blood tests he can add in short of ones needing special orders. When I broke an ankle last month I went to the walk in. I pay for their charge myself and and lace up my foot in an oversize army boot for a splint and use a cane. I haven’t missed a day of work.