A gastroenterologist opines on the increasing regulations that we all have to endure:

This can be quite absurd. I am a board-certified gastroenterologist. I used to be able to check patients in the hospital for occult bleeding with a simple rectal exam, putting a small stool sample on a test card and developing it at the bedside, looking for a color change. This is important information, easily obtainable. But no longer by me, because, under a recent new rule, gastroenterologists are no longer certified to judge the color difference. Does this make sense? Of course not. Can I change it? Apparently not, in part because making a common-sense argument is getting to be as strange as a $3 bill. Even smart, well-meaning people will kowtow to these rules rather than fight them with common sense.

(via gus van horn)