Re: Not to be smug or anything, but...


"Marc Schneiderman" <garbaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:05:17 GMT, "Paul M. Cook"
<pmBERMUDA_SHORTScook@xxxxxxx> wrote:



Sure it does, Marc. How many times have you had a patient in need of
tests
that they could not have performed due to the costs involved and their
lack
of insurance? Did you feel comfortable with your diagnosis without
those
tests?

Many times. However the problems of the insurance industry (which I
do believe are related to obscene overhead expenses, including CEO
salaries) are another problem in the system. They really don't
directly affect me as much as the patients (employers) and their
ability to afford insurance.

The direct effects to my practice delivery however are related to the
medical-legal system we practice in. As many lawyers will tell you,
lawsuits against physician are "just" "The cost of doing business." I
don't see it that way and the pressure I'm under because of it does
affect me and every other "caring" physician. I don't think anyone
could truly understand this Paul unless they practice medicine.


Shady lawyers probably justify it by rationalizing and thinking it is just
insurance company money. There surely is no shortage of greedy and corrupt
lawyers out there gaming the system. But the solutions top the problem are
worse than the disease and eliminating lawsuits outright denies a day in
court to the truly injured.

Funny how my cousins who practice aroma therapy, crystal therapy, etc.
feel no pressure in missing a diagnosis or treatment. It's because
they are not under the medical legal gun. And, they really don't
understand that the practice of medicine is not in the treatments,
it's in the diagnoses, preventive medicine, and complex care plans. If
they understood this, they wouldn't treat someone with an amethyst
crystal because a spot in their iris matched "liver" on an iridology
chart. They really have no clue (I guess they haven't read "500
Diseases of the Liver" recently.

They probably wait for the movie version.

There is a huge war being waged against those people. OK, so I don't think
crystals will cure much of anything. The so-called holistic healers are
being persecuted as we speak and they are causing no harm and the people
seeking out there "help" have already chosen to abandon modern medicine.
The practitioners feel no pressure simply because they have no money to
speak
of and there is no mandatory insurance they must carry.

So sure, the greed factor in lawsuits is pretty obvious.

I do know that life for them gets harder every day and recently the FDA
tried to severely tighten up any practice that claimed any health benefit at
all. The way it was written, and tried to pass in the dark of night, you
could go to jail for practicing medicine without a license if you claimed
*any* health benefit to say carrot juice. Just say "it's good for the eyes"
and you had the whole federal government down on your ass.

So the cure is often far worse than the disease.

Socialized medicine would fix most of that. Remove the profit incentive
(the obscene profit incentive) and the problem goes away.

Paul



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