Al and Nick.... "How the Hell are Ya???" Welcome aboard my friends! Very glad to make your aquaintance.
I've got to go play Daddy and get to a meeting at my kids school a bit, but I just wanted to say a quick "Hello". We need to swap notes and plan stratagies. Here in NYS there are some of those "state grants" and I tried to apply for them and of course it is full of "BullCCHIT". We like to make plays on words like this around here you will notice. The childish humor factor helps to keep our spirits up.
Even our county and state medical societies are in on this. For a number of reasons we have not renewed for either AAFP or MSSNY (Med society) for my wife. Finanical is one, but to take the hit for two organizations that we feel are totally out of touch with the reality of the situation is the other. They do not properly represent us and our perspective on a number of issues and this is certainly one of them.
We here like Roy, Vinny and myself are very upset about regional medical information hubs, state vaccine regisitries, no less the new backdoor spy portal for the carriers to watch each and every note you docs write. Now that is really BullCCHIT.
Wasn't Orwells "1984" required reading for anyone who got thru english 101 or 201 back in undergraduate school??? I certainly don't want to put my children with their names, date of birth, and the like in some centralize gov't based server. One for their own protection against an ever growing invasive gov't (Can you GonzoGate and Warrentless Wiretaps???) and two simply to protect their ID from regular criminal fraud. As a true defender of civil rights, I got a twinge and felt a chill go down my back the day I regisitered my kids for the SS#'s just so we could claim them on our taxes. Centralized databases about citizens and their health is total BullCCHIT. Not in my America while I'm still breathing.
How many doctors are willing to go to jail to protect their patients civil rights, help keep them out of these centralized databases, much like a reporter might to protect his or her sources??? As I've posted here before, that day is just about upon us, so one and all might as well start doing the gut check now, look deep into your own soul and in your own eyes the next time you see yourself in the mirror ("and I raise my head and Stare, into the eyes of a stranger....I've always know that the mirror never lies" "QueensRiech; Operation MindCrime".)
Anyway, it is a true pleasure to make your aquaintance. Keep up the good fight....In the words of Edward R and Keith Olberman;
"Good Night and Good Luck"
Paul
