What if there was a government website listing all patients

[busymom]

who don't lose weight, quit smoking or control their diabetes and therefore cause doctors to lose quality points and get dinged financially and professionally. Also, please list all patients who come to the doctor demanding an antibiotic for their virus or the new drug that they saw advertised and are sure that they need. This will help doctors to weed out undesirables.

Outrageous, isn't it?!

How about we start out by addressing Tort reform. I hear people say that it wouldn't save much money, but frankly, in our local ER doctors are forced to do CT scans now on anyone who comes in with abdominal pain instead of relying on a standard physical exam or x-ray. Incidental findings on CT that are benign then have to be investigated too. The reason these scans are done is because the climate has become so litigious that anything missed even in good faith is a sueable offense. That means hundreds of thousands of unnecessary charges to protect the odd patient who falls outside of the norm.

Please people. Think this through. If you alienate the people who study so hard and sacrifice so much to help you, then you will have won nothing.