I cannot help but believe our government is purely and simply trying to oust any small, independent business no matter what it is. Take the American farmer. The push for a National Animal Identification Number program for each and every animal in this country, whether used for food or not, will without a doubt put the small farmers out of business simply because of the idiotic paper work. This CHITT "CHITT" is nothing but an evil, cloaked plan drummed up by third party payers to put us non-compliers out of business (Play our way or don't play at all). The proposed mandate that we must use "approved" software is bad enough but the hidden, costumed intent to invade my patients' medical information is simply communistic in its purest form. We need to get practicing docs organized somehow and even more importantly we need to get to those in training. Most of them have no idea what waits out there for them. Just like when Managed Care first began. Those of us who tried hard to thwart it were outdone by the younger docs who, because of their need to build a practice, embraced it in toto. We all need to look around right now and see what we do on a daily basis to aid and abet the third party payers and STOP DOING IT!!!
(Geeze, is there a full moon or something? I'm sounding really paranoid.)
Anyway, welcome aboard, fellows. I hope you will continue to join in and stir the pot.

Leslie
Dying a slow death

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "