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“I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.”
-Hippocrates, Hippocrates Oath
Enter Obamacare & Death Panels: The new medical model looks at the Oath of Hippocrates as an impediment to achieving the goal of maximum population health for the state as a whole.
Host: Vic Eliason
The Crosstalk Radio Talk Show is heard each weekday on over 90 radio outlets across America and worldwide on the Internet. Crosstalk covers the issues that affect our world, our nation, our families and the Christian church from a perspective centered in the Word of God. Whether we discuss the economy, the political scene, the continuing moral collapse of our nation, legislation that affects the family, or the state of evangelicalism, our authority is found in the unchanging standard of the Holy Scriptures. Veteran co-hosts Dr. Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider have worked as a team for over 20 years to bring solid information to the body of Christ.Guest: » Jane Orient, Writings of Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Air Date: June 20, 2013
Show Description:
Dr. Jane Orient is a medical doctor and is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She has been in solo practice of general internal medicine since 1981 and is a clinical lecturer in medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She is the author of, Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare.What connection is there between healthcare and tax revenues? Under Obamacare the IRS will determine whether or not you have acceptable health insurance coverage or if you're eligible for tax subsidies that will make the premiums affordable. According to Dr. Orient, the only way the IRS can determine if premiums are affordable when they're going up 100% is by making someone else pay for them. In other words, the IRS will handle various complicated calculations to determine if your household income is a certain percentage above the poverty line and they will then give money, not to you, but to your insurance company. If they pay too much, they will collect it back from you via your tax return and not from the insurance company.
Where this is all headed was best summed up by Dr. Orient when she described the Oath of Hippocrates which seeks the good of the patient and not to do harm to anyone. The new medical model looks at the Oath of Hippocrates as an impediment to achieving the goal of maximum population health for the state as a whole. In other words, how can you have optimum population health when you have a lot of sick, 80 year old people around.
• Under certain circumstances could the IRS deny access to medical care?
• Can they be trusted to keep our medical records confidential?
• Will the traditional medical ethic become a thing of the past under Obamacare?
These questions and more are answered as this Crosstalk looks at your healthcare future.
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Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
—Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.