[Vision2020] America's Health Care is a National Disgrace

[g. crabtree]

And I am suggesting that to pass regulations to forbid companies to 
advertise to consumers is draconian. The only benefit would be physicians 
not having to explain to a patient why they won't authorize that particular 
product. Are you against consumer information web sites such as WebMD, 
DocWeb or the online PDA? Just because a consumer is aware of any given 
product does not mean that he will automatically get it. From my 
perspective, you have got to have a better reason to pass legislation that 
limits peoples access to information them because you don't want an MD to 
have to say no and justify his refusal.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] America's Health Care is a National Disgrace


> g. crabtree wrote:
>
>> Mr. Rumelhart you are right. How could a lowly "couch potato" actually
>> have any valid input into his own health care. I'm certain that we, as
>> patients, will all be much better off if we just shuffled through the
>> doctors offices like the mindless sheep that we apparently are. The
>> very idea that, as informed consumers, we could possibly have any
>> insight into our own treatment is ridicules. Best we simply sit back
>> and do as we are told by our betters. Perhaps it would be a good idea
>> to apply this principle to all aspects of our pathetic little lives
>> and joyfully accept whatever the powers that be command us to do. The
>> very idea of imposing on the great and powerful physician, by
>> suggesting that a product that we were made aware of, whether it be
>> through a TV or magazine ad or research done by whatever means,  might
>> be of benefit to us is, clearly, overstepping the bounds. His having
>> to actually explain why it might not be the best course of treatment
>> is clearly placing far too large a burden on the already beleaguered
>> MD. (we probably wouldn't be able to understand anyway) People who
>> suggest that patients participate in their own health care are,
>> obviously, misguided. Thank you for helping me see the matter more
>> clearly. I is obveusly two dum to halve a valid opinyun in this mater.
>
>
> Whatever.  If you really want to believe that you know more about health
> care than a trained physician based on a 30-second advertisement, well,
> it's your funeral.
>
> Just to be clear, I'm including myself in the population of people who
> would be better off letting the trained professionals do their jobs.
> I'm not trying to say that people are stupid and physicians are smart.
> It's just that they spent many years learning this stuff and working
> with it on a day-to-day basis.  I just trust them in general more than a
> self-serving pharmaceutical marketing department.  Your mileage may vary.
>
> Paul
>
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