--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > To say that these new rules and regulation are to
> protect your medical
> > privacy is bureaucratic double-speak at its worst.
> Let me way in from the provider side of this debate.
^^^^^^^^
> HIPA is going to make the practice of medicine much
> more difficult and more expensive. All of those
> forms patients are being required to sign are forced
> on all of us by the government. We have no choice.
> for the past two years medical organizations have
> been struggling to figure out how to comply with
> this legislation. You cannot imagine the amount of
> time energy and money spent on this stuff...
<rant mode>
Augh! We don't deal in quatloos, we deal with
*people*! We don't provide widgets or doomaflatchies,
we _take_care_of_people! Not only have we
*clinicians* been forced to deal with burgeoning
regulations, but our titles have been erased! Not MD,
not DO, not RN, nor LPN, nor RH-NP, or PA, or PT, or
OT...we've been reduced to "providers of (limited)
medical services." "Hm, your radiator appears to be
leaking sporadically, and your oil pressure's too
high; take these additives - I mean pills - and come
back if things get worse." >:{
<end rant>
Think happy thoughts...think of fluffy clouds...think
of cuddly kittens...*anything* to get this artery
throbbing on my temple to quit... :P
Debbi
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