A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943
The House of Representatives has hidden inside a trillion dollar “must pass” spending bill, a provision that eliminates the prohibition on the use of federal funding to assign all Americans a unique medical identifier. Former […]
The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to repeal the prohibition on the use of federal funds to create a “unique patient identifier,” which former Representative Ron Paul, M.D., sponsored in 1998. Unless the prohibition […]
In response to the rising rate of drug overdose deaths, 49 states had a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) by 2014. By requiring physicians to report all prescriptions for controlled drugs, and to consult the […]
For patients who do not want all their medical data on the internet in these days of frequent cybercrime, Philip Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. offers some suggestions in the summer issue of the Journal of […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD – http://vivelifecenter.com Three events portend serious danger to medical privacy, but it may be hard for patients to connect the dots because they seem unrelated, involve different sectors of the […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. In watching Hillary Clinton campaign I’m reminded of a poem I learned in ninth grade: humorist Arthur Guiterman’s “On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness”: The tusks that clashed in […]
Patient privacy is under siege, and the latest intrusion is by States that are building massive databases of patient records. About 16 States want to be Big Brother in constructing health care databases to monitor […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. Egypt’s crisis has raised alarms about national security and economic impact for Americans if regime change leads to an anti-US government controlling a strong ally in the Middle East. This […]
By: Alieta Eck, MD Will you trust the government to keep all of your personal medical information private and are they even capable of this? With Wikileaks, a master hacker was able to bribe a […]
By: Jane M. Orient, M.D. The radiation dose is likely the least of the problems with airport screening. If operating as specified, a scanner delivers about 0.01 millirad of radiation, or 0.00001 rad. You unavoidably […]
