Author: Dissent

A GP who is campaigning against the NHS Care Records Services is calling on the watchdog for NHS data to examine the legality of the government’s proposals for the NHS database. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has written a 15 page report for the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care…

WikiLeaks‘ home page proclaims, “We help you safely get the truth out.” Their editorial board seems to have abandoned any reasonable standards for “truth” this week. Despite noting that certain materials “are probably, but not certainly, fabricated,” and that the source of the purported materials did not seem to exist at the time the materials…

It’s a ghoulish fact that early medical research had to be conducted on stolen corpses. The problem in those days was a heightened sense of privacy about the human body. Feelings ran so high that medical schools were forced to hire grave-robbers to provide anatomical specimens. Michelangelo ransacked morgues to carry out his physiology research….

Robert Pear reports: President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical records. Lawmakers, caught in a crossfire of lobbying by the health care industry and…