[metalman]

medicine is still run on a first name, word of mouth basis, the paper is fluff , the vast majority of which is never looked at. the article mentions a behavior of many many short visits bieng billed, this is called "churning" and churners, the doctors who provide this nessesary service are well known.Churners provide hand pats and prescriptions to patients who are generaly, non compliant to the best medical advice, and are only looking for some afermation, and is in reality, a cross between pschotherapy and a social club, much lke a bartender or other underrated member of the work force. And ALL of the churners are bieng sued, ALL of the time, thats there other function, taking the blame. I know of churner doctors, who have been sued, and have lost there licence, but are still employed by the medical board, hated, victimised,blamed, but still needed, and now ireplacable.And yes they see hundreds of patients a week, who would get, nothing, otherwise. Having been born into a medical family, medical/military, I have heard a great deal of what actualy goes on, and all of the regulation only makes it worse. Go into a real medical environment now, and the offices are lined in computers and lap tops, that are then burried in paper. Both of my parents, who worked in the system, are now patients themselves, and its an ugly ugly mess. More regulation will break the system,is breaking it