tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post6247000940598928910..comments2023-10-08T06:40:21.533-04:00Comments on Proceeding Boldly: Physicians and Hospitals that Love ObamaCareauthorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03221073693374388144noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post-41070797137270731132010-05-07T09:40:25.402-04:002010-05-07T09:40:25.402-04:00Sharon offers a protest to the Flexnerization of m...Sharon offers a protest to the Flexnerization of medicine. As an Internal Medicine physician, I sympathize.<br /><br />Prescribing drugs is a guild restriction which doctors, now nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, and soon psychologists in our state wish State permission to do.<br /><br />I encourage the opening of the market completely. Perhaps one can debate the controlled Troglodytum Brachiandumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03916873097306876414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post-87693431262987406972010-04-24T19:20:07.104-04:002010-04-24T19:20:07.104-04:00I can't help but find it a bit ironic - with t...I can't help but find it a bit ironic - with the Flexner-ization of medicine - what did you doctors expect? I agree with your article in its entirety but lament the fact that I heard no hue or cry from your ranks when barriers to practice were erected giving you the privileged position you have enjoyed for so long. "Government giveth and government taketh away"...and now at last Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961995293771692373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post-78275765034954913792010-04-23T16:41:13.243-04:002010-04-23T16:41:13.243-04:00The AMA is not an organization that represents phy...The AMA is not an organization that represents physicians. Only 17% of docs in the US even acknowledge the existence of the AMA and most of these members have little to do with the organization. A handfull of Northern elites control the AMA and receive money from products that they sell. These products are procedure codes. In a bureaucracy, which is what medical care is to become, these codes aredavid7134https://www.blogger.com/profile/09312542857203326560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post-57643030968058241502010-04-21T16:26:47.613-04:002010-04-21T16:26:47.613-04:00Thanks for the comment. Will have to store Pourne...Thanks for the comment. Will have to store Pournelle's Law in the memory banks for future use. It's a good one. <br /><br />ObamaCare will result in exponential growth of the health care bureaucracy in number and power, as you rightly note will be disastrous. It's no surprise that the bureaucrats tout it. But it takes a lot of gall to suggest that it's going to be good for authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03221073693374388144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007417562510852054.post-14712502481373349472010-04-21T13:42:17.656-04:002010-04-21T13:42:17.656-04:00Isolation in palaces and ivory towers prevents acc...<i>Isolation in palaces and ivory towers prevents accurate observation of the realities of the world outside.</i><br /><br />Something wicked and perverse hijacks every bureaucracy. I worked in Organizational Development at a large insurance company, and witnessed firsthand the ironic tension between organizations and those that the organizations supposedly serve. Pournelle's Iron Law of Old Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11146916266682461688noreply@blogger.com