Rural Doctoring has been chronicling the politics and contractual situations facing her. Here’s why she does it, and some of the problems she runs into:
There’s a lot of talk out there about the need for greater transparency in the way healthcare is delivered, from CMS policy statements to disclosure of medical errors. And yet the more transparency everybody demands, the more baroque and inaccessible the language to discuss these matters becomes. It’s as if the need to disclose problems within the healthcare system is creating a culture of evasion, in which you can avoid disclosure by avoiding any examination of the roots of these problems.
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Transparency is a lawyer tool of oppression. It resembles self-reporting, a Stalinist method. Once people reported themselves, they were shot.
There is a duty to protect clinical care by telling the minks seeking to tear at its flesh they will be skinned alive.
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