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>>> Yet he is reluctant to allow people to opt out of Google’s core health-search tool. He likens that to a physician knowingly offering substandard care, he sa
by jnordwick 7y ago
>>> Yet he is reluctant to allow people to opt out of Google’s core health-search tool. He likens that to a physician knowingly offering substandard care, he says.
>>> “If you believe me that all we are doing is organizing that information to make it easier for your doctor, I’m going to get a little paternalistic here: I’m never going to let that get opted out,” Dr. Feinberg says. “It’s going to screw up your treatment. We’re not going to be able to take care of you.”
Planet Money had an interview with Dr. Feinberg, the head of the Google health initiative. He was asked about people potentially opting out. His response was extremely paternalistic.
He said that he views everybody in the system as his patients, and he thinks this data aggregation and analysis from Google will improve care. So as "our" doctor he cannot morally allow any of his his patients to withdraw themselves from the program because, to him, that would be akin to giving you inferior care.
So this guy gets to unilaterally appoint himself as our doctor? I certainly didn't hire him.
>>> He boasts about his $5 Wal-Mart fleece jacket, and is an astrology enthusiast. “I’m positive,” Dr. Feinberg says to a reporter good naturedly, if inaccurately, “you’re Sagittarius.”
He's also heavily into astrology and was asking the interviewer his sign and trying to guess it. I certainly would never hire a doctor that was into astrology. How can I fire this guy?
How TF do you become a doctor that believes in astrology?
- titzer 7y ago"Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." This is how you appoint yourself lord of all things.
- carapace 7y ago> Planet Money had an interview with Dr. Feinberg Got a link?
- jnordwick 7y agoI can't find it, sorry.
- carapace 7y agoI tried to search on their site but it didn't work out (I block JS, couldn't figure out which set of whitelist selection would make search work w/o enabling tracking. Derp NPR, derp.)
- jnordwick 7y agoI tried too. I was just listening to in Friday on the Planet Money podcast on Spotify. It was definitely their voices too, not All Things Considered or anything, and it had Dr. Feinberg's voice too. (lol, that comment is back down to -1 again. Apparently you cannot say anything bad about astrology on HN either.)
- Infinitesimus 7y agoMight it be this one? https://www.npr.org/transcripts/486230998 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/486230998
- carapace 7y agoNo. That's a Dr. Feinberg but not the Dr. Feinberg I think.
- jnordwick 7y agoFound it! I was mistaken. It was the "The Journal" podcast: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-google-is-pushing-into-health-data/19d0dbe3-fe29-4c6d-a547-926df9a3ec89 https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-google-is-pushi...
- selimthegrim 7y agoMy dad’s a physician that believes in homeopathy because his religious guru wrote a book about it. He also listens to Eckhart Tolle. I hope they’re not connected.
- tortasaur 7y agoDoctors aren't superhuman and med school doesn't filter out the gullible.