The Two-Fold Intimidation of Dr Bornstein, as Orchestrated by Donald Trump, Apparently to Conceal Something About Trump ' s Medical History

DiscussionAs noted above, we have seen many cases in which health care professionals were pressured to violate their core values and ethical norms by outside parties, most often large health care organizations seeking financial gain.Now, in this new case, we see a single health care professional twice pressured to violate core values and ethical norms by a patient, a wealthy billionaire corporate CEO who became President of the United States.  Thus we are now in a situation in which the President of the US, to whom all federal health care regulatory and law enforcement agencies at least nominally report, has shown contempt for the core values and ethical standards of the medical profession.This lowers whatever minimal expectations we might have had that the US government might help health care professionals defend their values and ethics.  However vulnerable health care professionals used to feel to outside pressure from large private organizations, they now must feel much more vulnerable.We used to rant that health care professionals ' values and ethics needed better defense, and that the government should be urged to take a greater role in providing it.  Now the government under Trump seems to be raising the threat level to health care professionals.  True health care reform now seems to require not just changes in government processes and attitudes, but a new person to sit at the head of government.References1. Poses MD. A cautionary tale: the dysfuncti...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: core values Donald Trump fraud intimidation medical ethics medical record confidentiality Source Type: blogs