“What could possibly go wrong? “
Yes, the prospect of this is terrifying given the state of politics today!
My wife had a visit with a potential new Neurosurgeon for her back yesterday at a well-known Medical Care System here in the SF Bay Area. After filling out the obligatory paperwork (which is mostly bull$hit, but routine), and after seeing the nurse, she was left in the exam room with a computer screen and told to answer the questions it posed. After seeing the first couple ( which dealt with “issues like do you ever consider suicide?” I told her to stop and answer nothing else. This kind of $hit is the “camel’s nose under your privacy tent,” what with today’s medical record keeping and never knowing if your identity is decoupled from the questions. This stuff can come back and bite you, particularly when you are on Medicare. In these respects, medicine is a disgrace today. You are treated as a statistic and rated on what your continued existence costs society.
They have been asking those kinds of questions in NJ primary care doctors offices ever since the Bush administration.
Sounds very THX-1138.