Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 27172
Berkeley CSUA MOTD
 
WIKI | FAQ | Tech FAQ
http://csua.com/feed/
2024/12/25 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
12/25   

2003/1/21 [Health] UID:27172 Activity:high
1/21    Anybody in favor of doctors providing written disclosures of their
        financial dealings with drug companies?  If a doctor is peddling
        a particular drug to patients, he has to tell them that he owns
        stock in the company, for example.  Or if the drug maker paid for
        him and his family's cruise "seminar" on a particular disease.
        \_ Yes, absolutely. I don't see how patients wouldn't want to
           know that information.
           \_ and here lies the problem.  99% of the people won't ask their
              doctor for such info.  Chances are you don't even know if
              your doctor graduated last of his class.  And AMA is against
              all such disclosures.  We need a federal or state law.
              \_ Just let the free market handle the problem. Bad doctors
                 will kill all their patients, then they will have to switch
                 careers. Why do you want to get the government involved?
                 \_ Well played.
                    \_ Not really.  The fact is that no matter how much info
                       is available most people won't ask for it, wouldn't
                       know how to judge it, have no baseline for it, and
                       are lucky to find a doctor still taking new patients in
                       the first place.  Go ahead, make a new law.  New laws
                       about disclosing this stuff won't help anyone except
                       the lawyers and politicians and make some new paper
                       pushers a job.
                       \_ Especially the ambulance-chasing laywers.
                       \_ How about the insurance-money chasing doctors?
                          Let real ok?  doctors are in business for the money.
                          The AMA has brainwashed you into thinking that MDs
                          are altruistic angels from God.  They're not.
                          Doctors don't like HMOs because they get paid LESS
                          Than PPOs.  The more tests they run and the more
                          drugs they prescribe, the more money they make.
           \_ How do you tell the difference between accepting a "cruise" vs.
              getting free samples of OTC medicine?
2024/12/25 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
12/25   

You may also be interested in these entries...
2013/4/17-5/18 [Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Disease/General] UID:54659 Activity:nil
4/17    Just a thought.  Say we select a small percentagle of the population
        (e.g. 100000 people) with representations from all walks of life
        (scientists, engineers, doctors, chefs, plumbers, nannies, ...) except
        bad guys, transport them to a distant earth-like planet with abundant
        natural resources, and take away all man-made objects (machines,
        clothes, books, medicines, all tools, ...)  How long will it take for
	...
2012/4/23-6/1 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Women] UID:54363 Activity:nil
4/16    "The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds"
        http://www.csua.org/u/w2x (gma.yahoo.com)
        I can't help noticing in the video:
        - how the doctor stayed standing up while examing this Jessica
          Schnaider sitting down,
        - how often he checked her heartbeat with his stethoscope, while
	...
2012/2/8-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Health/Skin] UID:54302 Activity:low
2/8     wtf, 13 year old implanted at school without parent's consent:
        http://tgr.ph/y6upNw (telegraph) -phuqm
        \_ This is what liberals have done to England. If you re-elect
           Obama, you can expect forced contraception and steralization
           Obama, you can expect forced contraception and sterilization
           in America too.
	...
2011/11/10-30 [Health] UID:54220 Activity:nil
11/10   What's the best way to get medical leave (how do I find
        a doctor who is willing to help you in any way)?
        \_ Do you have a good relationship with your personal physician?
           If not, do you know any physicians as friends or family friends?
           That would be a good place to start.
           \_ Crap, no I don't. Ok, is there another way?
	...
2011/4/27-7/13 [Health] UID:54097 Activity:nil
4/27    "Prince William involved in U.S. Coast Guard drug bust"
        http://www.csua.org/u/t77 (royalwedding.yahoo.com)
	...
2010/12/21-2011/2/19 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Women] UID:53979 Activity:nil
12/21   Placebos work even when the doctor tells the patient that they
        are sugar pills:
        http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/12/22/sugar-pills-work-even-when-people-know-they-are-fake/?partner=yahootix
        \_ "Harvard Placebo Study Was Seriously Overhyped"
           http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/12/28/harvard-placebo-study-was-seriously-overhyped
	...
2010/7/4-20 [Health] UID:53874 Activity:nil
7/4     Ecuadorians and DEA seized submarine specifically built for
        transoceanic drug trafficking:
        http://www.csua.org/u/r2a (news.yahoo.com)
        These drug lords are doing better than some navies in the world.
	...
2009/12/16-2010/1/19 [Health] UID:53595 Activity:nil
12/16   Why Did the drug importation amndmnt require a super-majority to pass?
        \_ The GOP was fillibustering everything at the end there, trying
           to stop the health care bill from passing. They even filibustered
           the defense appropriations bill, the traitors.
	...