Medical privacy

[David Hansen]

On 31 Aug 2001 at 19:35, alan hassey wrote:

> I'd like
> to see the targets clearly defined and clinical good practice (with
> consent!) respected & supported.

The problem is that for respect to be earned people have to be respectable. I think that the 
medical bunch have already lost respect due to their arrogant and patronising attitude. I also 
think that it will be decades, if ever, before they regain this. Instead of blaming the public, which 
was the impression given after a number of scandals, they should ponder on the reasons people 
don't trust them any more.

The activities of pathologists have been mentioned. Another case worth considering is the 
Bristol heart fiasco. Of particular interest here is that the "regulatory" bunch failed to investigate 
the whole scandal. The only logical reason for this would seem to be for damage limitation.

Then there is the question of the attempts by the medical bunch to produce a master race. The 
greatest form of discrimination of all is to kill people before they are born because they are not 
"perfect".

Members of my family have been told, in as many words, that women of their age tend to 
imagine things, by patronising doctors.

There is much good done in medical circles. The problem is the failure to deal with those who 
are incompetent and the failure to curb the excesses of the master race tendency (which a lot of 
research is concerned with).


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