From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 11:09:23 MDT
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 "BillK" <pharos@gmail.com> said:
> Large sections of the population are inadequately treated
Many people receive poor medical care because medicine is so expensive
and it�s expensive because of government and its ridiculous restrictions
and licensing requirements.
You go to the doctor, your appointment is at 10 am so you cool your
heals for 3 hours and at 1 pm he kindly deems to grant you an audience,
for about 4 minutes. After you kiss his ring you hurriedly tell him your
health problem while the doctor looks at his watch and glances at you
test results, he then gives you a prescription, a permission slip to buy
a drug as if you were a child, he then sends you on your way. You then
give the doctor a big fee, go to the drug store with your permission
slip in your hand, and the doctor buys a Ferrari. This is nuts. Most of
the time a nurse or a computer program could diagnose your problem as
well as the highly paid doctor. True you could be suffering from some
extremely rare bizarre ailment that would take a Sherlock Holmes (or a
Dr. House) to diagnose, but you know what, you probably aren't. It's
possible those tracks were made by a zebra, but they were probably made
by a horse.
Granted no computer program is (yet)as good at diagnoses as a genius
doctor who is willing to devote significant time thinking about it, but
I maintain a computer program will give at least as good a diagnosis as
you are likely to receive in the real world. I think surgery is the only
area where a very skilled human being is still needed, at least for now.
So to sum up, ALL prescriptions should be over the counter, including
Heroin.
John K Clark
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