Bar Assns and AMA cowardly pukes...Re: [SpinLyme] Healthcare Lies and the NYT (MassCare's Letter to the NYT Editors)
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Subject: Bar Assns and AMA cowardly pukes...Re: [SpinLyme] Healthcare
Lies and the NYT (MassCare's Letter to the NYT Editors)
Date: Apr 14, 2009 2:37 AM
And all of these big law firms would rather
lay off lawyers than take on such a winnable
Qui Tam case as big as this. That tells you
what lawyers, MDs, and the New York Times are
all about.
As if Abu Ghraib wasn't enough to get all
the lawyers and the AMA to be marching on
Washington.
As if the Bar Associations couldn't figure
out the 9/11 stunt. As if not a one
of them could call up a physicist...
That's No-Nuts-And-No-Brains American males
for ya.
Kathleen
http://www.actionlyme.org
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From: M
To: Spin...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SpinLyme] Healthcare Lies and the NYT (MassCare's Letter
to the NYT Editors)
Date: Apr 13, 2009 3:52 PM
On the misuse of "evidence based medicine" to develop treatment
guidelines...
Treatment guidelines, even corrupted ones, are a tool for controlling
medicine through the centralization of medical decision making.
Practice guidelines are central to the profitability of HMO’s and
health insurers.
Dr. David Eddy, senior advisor to Kaiser Permanente, stated that “if
the fight to control health care costs is to be successful, it will
have to address [the decisions physicians make about
treatments.]” (Eddy DM. Three Battles to Watch in the 1990's. JAMA.
1993; 270(4): 520-26). Dr. Eddy went on to say “[i]t would not be
stretching things too far to say that whoever controls practice
policies controls medicine.” (Eddy DM. Clinical Decision Making: From
Theory to Practice, Practice Policies—What Are They? JAMA. 2000; 263
(6): 877–878.).
From an altruistic point of view, ethically and competently derived
guidelines could benefit patients as well as control costs. But when
guidelines are driven by interests that are not aligned with the
public interest, as they are when they are exclusionary of divergent
opinion and permit conflicts of interests, they become tools of the
pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Thus, the observations made
by Dr. Eddy can have very negative consequences.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci