[HSF] medicine is not practiced in vitro

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

Dear Tea ...
Deep Insightful thoughtful perspective ..... as usual,  ..... . how would
you extrapolate more on these thoughts of yours ?

NFA


On 10/19/07, Tea Acuff <tacuff at swbell.net> wrote:
>
> One of the themes that I have been trying to get across to the readers of
> HSF is that all life is connected. Life has no independent categories; we
> bring the categories to our observations. Or as a sound bite for HSF,
> "Medicine is not practiced in a test tube," despite our attempts to get all
> relevant factors in medicine into our clinic, our operations room, or a
> single operation.
>
> For the wider audience that may be unaware of the details of medicare
> funding, Pete Stark imports the so called "Stark rules" into medicare that
> regulate when doctors have crossed the line from service as a business to
> service as medicine. The former side of the line is considered illegal or
> possibly fraudulent. This week Congressman Stark in his own words shows the
> mentality that he brings to the task that is so vital to the appropriate
> funding of physicians in the USA. The mentality that decides if we are
> frauds or doctors.
>
> "I yield myself two minutes. Madam speaker, I, first of all, I'm just
> amazed that they can't figure out—the Republicans are worried that they
> can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't
> care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are
> you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're
> telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have
> money to fund the war on children. But you're going to spend it to blow up
> innocent people if he can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send
> to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement."
>
>                                                                                         Pete
> Stark
>
> So should we just let "society" determine the right test tube for our
> practice and trust the goverment's sensibilities, or would indeed medical
> care be improved if we reformulate the discussion in ways that reflect the
> way medical care can work? In the US there still is a small choice even if
> it seems often to be between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Should society get
> its sensibilities (the gestalt of how the world works)  from Stark or each
> of us? We each choose daily.
>
> tea
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