tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post416320438720972743..comments2024-03-22T17:05:55.267-04:00Comments on MD Whistleblower: Do Doctors Tell the Truth?Michael Kirsch, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-1037047910474390322015-05-05T07:50:57.898-04:002015-05-05T07:50:57.898-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Humaun Kabirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919239151463005416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-18500902336185844052015-04-21T09:22:33.352-04:002015-04-21T09:22:33.352-04:00@DG, thanks for the comment. High turnover of edu...@DG, thanks for the comment. High turnover of educators is not desirable, of course, but do you think more aggressive unions would stanch this? I completely agree with you that the state as no role in the exam room. For this reason, I am against laws that dictate frequency of mammograms, for example. Politicization of medicine will only erode the quality of our medical careMichael Kirsch, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-14341867602475687722015-04-20T13:17:34.694-04:002015-04-20T13:17:34.694-04:00I would like to believe doctors tell the truth, at...I would like to believe doctors tell the truth, at least as it concerns their patients.<br /><br />Sadly, conservatives have legalized doctors lying to their patients. This would seem to undermine an essential quality of professional standards of medicine on which every patient should be able to rely.<br /><br />Some states already mandate that doctors provide medically inaccurate anti-abortion propaganda, such as abortions cause breast cancer. Others have legitimized and legalized lying to a patient as an act of conscience, so as to deprive a patient of a valid information on which to make a decision about their life and health care.<br /><br />Now THIS is on the table in Arizona and other states:<br />http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/04/can_the_arizona_legislature_legally_make_doctors_to_lie_about_abortion.php<br /><b>Can the Arizona Legislature Legally Make Doctors Lie About Abortion?</b><br />A new law requiring doctors to tell women that medication-induced abortions can be reversed -- a premise most of the health care community refutes -- could be in violation of the First Amendment, experts say. <br /><br />I would argue your point about teachers that the high turnover in teaching IS adversely affecting the ability of the profession to provide a good quality of education, btw -- and that compensation is part of that.dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.com