Weird

I am sitting at my computer reading one of the startling articles I have read in a while, Betsy McCaughey in the Wall Street Journal. I am also streaming Vicki McKenna's radio show on WISN. As I am reading this article, Vicki mentions it on the air and begins to read it.

Dr. Ezekial Emanuel is leading President Obama's charge on health care reform. This guy actual believes that doctors care to much about their Hippocratic oath.

True reform, he argues, must include redefining doctors' ethical obligations. In the June 18, 2008, issue of JAMA, Dr. Emanuel blames the Hippocratic Oath for the "overuse" of medical care: "Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness," he writes. "This culture is further reinforced by a unique understanding of professional obligations, specifically the Hippocratic Oath's admonition to 'use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment' as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of cost or effect on others."

In numerous writings, Dr. Emanuel chastises physicians for thinking only about their own patient's needs. He describes it as an intractable problem: "Patients were to receive whatever services they needed, regardless of its cost. Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life. . . . Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs." (JAMA, May 16, 2007).

This guy is a doctor. The main stream media is hiding from this guy, knowing that if they tell the truth about him, ObamaCare is dead.