Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (13340)	2/26/2006 10:45:21 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541739

You fail to address the special legal duty care givers have to provide patients with a reasonable standard of care comporting with what most doctors recommend (it's malpractice to offer care below the standard of reasonable care). That's not "trivial". As far as I know the formula issue presents no constitutional issues, while the data mining issue does present some, again not "trivial" to me. I don't "trivialize" the concerns of those who balance liberty against safety, I merely suggest I am willing to take some risk when it comes to protecting constitutional freedoms, especially where the risk of the threat to safety is unknown (this goes to risk assessment- something in the past you seem to have treated as "important" rather than "trivial"), and the people pounding on the risk are emotional, and have a poor track record on the truth- the risk of not breastfeeding is known, and has been studied. If you read my link you would know that. When it comes to the freedom of companies to market formula to mothers in the maternity ward using US hospitals that get huge chunks of government money, I see it as illogical to put our US hospitals at odds with the medical standard of care in this country AND government policy. So you are trivializing both the legal duty a caregiver owes their patients, tested over time in US courts, and comprehensive public health policy. It does not "trivialize" the legal system to hold health care providers to a given standard of care- that's what malpractice suits are all about- reasonable standards of care.