tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11034229.post4378659866524804689..comments2023-07-14T02:53:40.719-07:00Comments on retired doc's thoughts: Adam Smith's Men of Systems and the progressive medical elitejames gaultehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537303135780186926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11034229.post-63394593253779517062014-05-20T08:41:09.892-07:002014-05-20T08:41:09.892-07:00My political prejudice is that tyranny and fascism...My political prejudice is that tyranny and fascism are bad. My Evidence-Based Conclusion is that they do not work for very long.<br />I tend to like "George Orwell's" line of reasoning; it is my pleasure that he seemed to be right. It has been tried - it does not fall into Best Practices.Troglodytum Brachiandumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03916873097306876414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11034229.post-90497968392137925602014-04-01T03:18:41.802-07:002014-04-01T03:18:41.802-07:00Hey, Welcome back to the 1940s and Nazi Germany or...Hey, Welcome back to the 1940s and Nazi Germany or 50s and US McCarthy era thinking. Then we had governments that wanted to dictate the ability to think and desired to create, manipulate and control society and Medicine in particular. When physicians stop treating to benefit the patients then all ethics are lost.<br />It is foolish to think the rich and powerful will be unable to still maintain that separate RIGHT to whatever they want-congress still remains separate from Obamacare restrictions. European medicine is available for those with assets to go there.<br />To comply to ABMS/ABIM corporate programs out of FEAR is extortion nothing less! ABIM/ABMS continues to insist still that Certification is voluntary again emphasizing that maintaining it out of fear is extortion.Paul Kempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787905856871172939noreply@blogger.com