Posted
9:40 AM
by Gene
Here's a combo that doesn't inspire confidence: our
Daily Babbitt is gushing at
all the high-tech hospitals are buying -- tablet computers! implantable RFID chips! [
!!!!!] -- and here
the AMA is having a blood-pressure-raising tantrum blasting pharmacy clinics. While we might doubt CVS can do a better job than a local hospital the one thing that has brought medicine in disrepute is its temple-on-the-mount approach, and we suspect all those gadgets will do less good than simple things to let people have more control over their health -- and if it means taking doctors out of the process in a few places, so be it.