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- From: ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
- Subject: Re: Bashing, truth, etc.
- In-Reply-To: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:41:34 GMT
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:46:18
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- >>>>> On Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:41:34 GMT, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) said:
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- Herman> In article <1gvpgsINNm32@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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- Herman> Much of present established medicine was at one time
- Herman> considered quackery, or at least ridiculous. The conspiracy
- Herman> as stated in the first paragraph is not a deliberate
- Herman> conspiracy, but it is not that far from what is happening.
- Herman> The conspiracy is there to keep people from deciding what is
- Herman> appropriate for them, and part of it is the acts of moralists
- Herman> and bureaucrats to keep substances from us "because we cannot
- Herman> act intelligently", those physicians who do not provide the
- Herman> patient with information, but TELL the patient what to do,
- Herman> etc. Few physicians have the ability to put widely separated
- Herman> information together, and unfortuantely this is almost gone
- Herman> from our sorry excuse for an educational system.
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- Herman> But the problems we face are often far more complex than our physicians
- Herman> have learned to handle, and a bureaucrat is usually even worse. There
- Herman> is, in effect, a massive conspiracy to keep those of us who must use
- Herman> medical process from acquiring the information, and in many cases from
- Herman> making intelligent choices. If anything, the situation is getting much
- Herman> worse, and if the regulation mania gets worse, we will only get such
- Herman> medical care as the bureaucrats are willing to permit.
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- Bravo.
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