Doctor offices do not honor privacy

Yesterday I was having a conversation with a woman at my local plumbing company. She was complaining about the lack of privacy at the area doctor groups and how there is no effort to protect patient data and financial information in front of other staff and patients.

To have any public credibility doctors have to honor their medical oath and be reasonably in tune with medical truth. This is exceedingly hard to do if your health care provider has bought the Big PhRMA/Big Insurance paradigm.

I explained to her that HIPPA is set up to collect and share your information and that the failure to provide private areas to discuss your information is a legal requirement.

Where one gets their information is telling and for doctors crucial. Pharmaceutical muscle is evident not only in medical schools but in medical organizations, local medical boards and in the governmental institutions that oversee medicine and public health. All of these medical organizations are in the business of strong arming doctors, creating fearful and highly conditioned environments that continue outrageous but profitable practices for the industry. http://imva.info/index.php/vaccines/a-rebellion-in-healthcare.

Excellent Comments and a Good Read

and from an astute commentator, or two -

Death rates fall when doctors strike

from Mirdza Hayden on ryze.com courtesy Jeff Rense

"There are only four times in recorded history that the death rate actually fell. The first was in highly technologically developed Israel in 1973. During a one-month physicians' strike, the national death-rate reached the lowest rate ever. According to statistics by the Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by almost half.

The same thing happened again in 1976 in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. There, the doctors went on strike for 52 days. The death rate fell by 35% (National Catholic Reporter and confirmed by the National Morticians Association of Colombia).

Similar events happened in California a few years later, and in the United Kingdom in 1978 (see "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", by Robert Mendelsohn, MD)."

So, does in not stand to reason to find others ways to stay healthy, other than using allopathic doctors and getting prescriptions filled?

Think about it...

Mendelsohn's book is worth reading if you want to know the workings of modern mainstream Western medicine.