Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
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We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
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