--- Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or do you care more how > your > patient "feels" about it then saving the life of your patients wife > when > you tell her that her husband has AID's. What kind of professional > ethics are you displaying? > > > Ruben
I think Ruben raises some valid points here. When we say that there is no need, from a public health perspective, to track progress of a disease at the individual level, is that a conclusion based on science or policy? I'm not saying policy is unimportant, of course, but we often fail to distinguish between the two. I don't pretend to know the answers, but it does at least seem that these are valid questions. I am inclined to agree that legal protections are all the more important with technologies such as electronic health records being introduced, and the last thing I want to do is suggest that I don't think privacy is very important, but I cringe when I think of a repeat of 1918, too. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." --Arthur Schopenhauer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
