Bush administration is prying into your medical records in violation of the law

will they use it to make sure guns aren't sold to people on anti-depressants?

 

No, and you can take that to the bank.

 

Hope so...forward the database to FBI and DPS for the background checks.

 

its pretty clear that all these mind/mood-altering drugs being fed to our children are the problem - most all of these kids who do this stuff are on them.

 

haven't in the past, so don't know why they would now. not the same people who get funded by the NRA.

 

sorry but keeping track of prescription drugs is a little different than the title seems to imply. Medical records consist much more of just what prescription drugs which are taken

 

Dick Cheney knows you take Valtrex.

 

If you took viagra, do we need a medical record to know why?

 

It will be interesting to see if it somehow slips in the next election cycle that this candidate or that candidate takes some medicine.

For a brief time I worked at Methodist Hospital in the Medical Records department. Not to speak to specifics, but I promise you that there are several very notable past Houston athletes and politicians taking all kinds of very powerful drugs, including several taking large doses of antidepressants. These are people that I personally wouldn't suspect based on their public image.

The 'accidental release' of that sort of information at the right time could be devastating, even if they are taking the drugs for benign reasons that have nothing to do with their job effectiveness.

 

Pretty soon the gov will be administrating the drugs too.

 

One more reason to cut the size of the Government. There is nothing they can get out of this that will be for the greater good. Nothing. The only reason they do this is because bureaucrats have to do something to justify their jobs.

 

it doesnt have to be impotence, if thats what you are implying. it could just be b/c someone likes to go long and strong.

but would viagra really be a drug that would be tracked? the blog only reference antidepressants in particular. im sure certain drugs are tracted but which ones in particular are speculation.

i suppose it lets them retroactively say, "look, no wonder he went crazy, he was on antidepressants" then they can pat themselves on the back.

 

There already is a precedent to the government using medical records to embarrass political oponents when the Nixon Admin. found out and leaked that Daniel Ellsworth had shock treatments. Given that record it does make me uneasy that there is a database now of such information.

 

In that case, that ******* dopehead Rush Limbaugh is f*cked.

 

so you think its ok for the govt to make it more difficult and try to prevent people from Dr shopping?


isnt part of the reason that this database is used for?..detouring dr shopping

 

Thanks for the update, Alex Jones.