www.washingtonpost.comAs a defensive measure, some physicians are requiring patients to sign broad agreements that prohibit online postings or commentary in any media outlet “without prior written consent.”
Critics call the documents gag orders. Many experts say they are both unethical and unenforceable.
This is just the kind of crap that highlights how badly we need a health plan in this country. Not only do these overpaid greed heads in the Medical Mafia get to screw up your finances ... they expect you to keep quiet about their overpriced fraud and malpractice. “The people least capable of judging quality of care are patients,” said District internist Nancy Falk, whose mostly positive ratings are offset by those calling her curt and intolerant of questions, descriptions she denies. “They don’t know what we know.” Falk regards doctor rating sites as just as dubious as “Best Doctors” compilations. In her view, both amount to popularity contests.
This is exactly the kind of aloof crap that you can expect from a doctor. We are too stupid to know whether we have been treated promptly and with respect. We don’t know enough about our own bodies and well being to understand if we feel bad or not. Or that we know whether or not they are treating what they know is wrong with us or experimenting to find out. Doctors practice? “One person’s brusque is another’s direct,” Caplan said. “It’s notorious that many doctors who would score well on ambiance are not good doctors, but manage to stay in practice.” As a member of the New York state medical licensing board, “I saw again and again doctors who were well beyond the border of malpractice who kept going because patients loved them.”
“... beyond the border of malpractice”? And yet these morons in the American Medical Mafia Association don’t yank the licenses from doctors they know to be “beyond the border of malpractice”?
