Doctors Silencing Online Patient Reviews Via Contract

Condiment writes "Next time you're sick, take five and actually read the pile of contracts your doctor dumps on your lap, because it's becoming more and more likely that your doctors are banning patients from posting reviews on the Web. You heard that right: as a prerequisite to receiving medical care, patients are in many cases required to sign away their First Amendment rights!"

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Re:non-issue

[mapkinase]

doctors that are skilled, are weakly correlated. Patients are, in general, able to evaluate the first trait, but not as well the second.

For a Muslim, it's always fun to see "democracy" fail. /i haven't been trolling for a while...

Re:When you don't have a choice

[rossz]

It's one thing to have employment provided health care. It's part of the overall cost the employer expects to pay out to hire talent. It's quite another thing to ask me to pay for your health insurance.

One of the reasons I was repulsed by Obama was his desire to implement national health care. After seeing what became of the UK system and where the Canadian system was headed, I wanted no part of that mess. Government waste, inefficiency, laziness, and uncaring all tightly wrapped around my ability to see a doctor? No fucking thank you.

The cost to implement his plan is staggering. The country is already going bankrupt with his useless stimulus packages and bailouts. Have you been paying attention to how much money Obama as already spent? And he's just getting started.

It would be nice if his programs worked. But they won't. In four years perhaps we can finally get a fiscally responsible government (I'm not suggesting Republicans since they spent just as much as the Democrats). I'm not holding my breath.

!Censorship

[BitZtream]

Okay douchebags, stop tagging articles with 'censorship' where idiots give up their 'right' to do somethin.

Censorship is when your rights are taken from you, not when you're a moron who signs things they haven't read and you agree not to exercise those rights.

Contrary to what slashdot readers seem to think, not everything in the universe is about censorship. Stop abusing the word, you make the rest of us look bad.

Re:non-issue

[jimbolauski]

I think I've found a flaw in your medical system. In Canada, doctors give us medicine.

But first you have to wait a month to see your doctor to get medicine.