A doctor who refuses to use such a system is putting the lives of his patients at risk. How is that acceptable?
By that logic, a doctor that doesn't try every possible remedy is putting his/her patients at risk, no? So you should throw a doctor in jail for refusing to consider blood-letting as an acceptable cure?
Re:Save My Life: an update
by CWuestefeld on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:29AM
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It might be unacceptable (although as I said, you haven't even made that case). But that's a long way away from being criminal behavior.
Penalties are certainly a mistake in the case of your statement, as you haven't really outlined any computerized diagnostic system that is accurate on the entire range of human maladies, is available to all, and that can account for all of the fuzziness of reporting symptoms (just to name a few obstacles).
But I can't see at all where you're coming from when you say criminal offense. This would suggest that doctors should be locked up?