[drcode]

Fully agree with you here. I can understand why people argue "We must do everything possible that no human being ever finds out anything medical-related about another human being, ever"

But that is a value judgement, and I believe it is one that comes at a great cost to society- I wouldn't be surprised if >50% of the cost of medical care is directly or indirectly due to this attitude, and that medical progress has been slowed immensely for the same reason.

If we could make medical data more open, it would greatly benefit the vast majority of people. OF COURSE it is true that some smaller number of other people/patients are helped by the existing medical secrecy system. I fully admit this is a trade-off, where we have to decide what values are more important.

(source: Am medical doctor)

[zlg_codes]

This is disgusting. You want people knowing the maladies they got treated, and how?

There's the old saying of knowledge being power. If you want this information about people being spread, then you're advocating having power over these people over that information.

It takes very little imagination to see how humans would misuse this data.

[drcode]

it's a tradeoff

I'm disgusting for "people having power over other people", you're disgusting for the graveyard of dead people due to the status quo system.