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

[g. crabtree]

Sorry. Haste makes gibberish.

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 PDR? 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 than 
to
limits peoples access to information simply because you don't want an MD to
have to say no and justify his refusal.

g

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
To: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] America's Health Care is a National Disgrace


> 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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