Beth Israel endocrinology chief Leonid Poretsky writes:
After the demise of the Soviet Union, former Soviet citizens are able, like patients suffering from allergic disorders, to detect in their present conditions the circumstances that remind them of their experience in the Soviet Union.
As one of these “survivors” who is now an academic physician in New York, I am sensitive to those features of today’s medicine in the United States that are heavily reminiscent of the life “back in the USSR” and that I describe collectively using the term “Sovietization.”2 This term refers primarily to the ever-increasing levels of bureaucratization and propaganda that, as I will attempt to show, threaten the integrity of American medicine.
Don’t forget the implanted RFID tags that go along with your new improved Obummercare.
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Comrade, the reeducation camps (gulag) are always a remedy for the hooligans.
I’m with you, comrade!
But what shall we do with those who oppose the digitization and centralization of all personal information?
I think the good doctor needs to lighten up. There are clear benefits to EMR. These are: records can be mined and analyzed. Perhaps this physician would rather not have his records examined? Ultimately, it will be easier to share medical records when patients change physicians. Billing can be made easier as well. All of this just takes some time. If computers are good for business, why are they not good for the business side of medicine? And then he talks about limiting hours of residents as a bad thing. We do it for pilots? Are medical errors less important? The man is just an old, cranky medical slave driver.