The Presidential Campaign, Preventive Care, and Patient Compliance
John Edwards On Patient Compliance & Bloggers On John Edwards
If you are both obsessed with the bioethical dilemmas implicit in patient compliance and fascinated by nuances of public health policy pronouncements made by presidential candidates in locations like Tipton, Iowa - and really now, who isn’t? - then you, my friend, are in luck: today’s AlignMap 1 post focuses on the speech Edwards made last Sunday, in which he declared that his health plan proposal “requires that everybody get preventive care,” (including, for example, regular checkups for everyone and mammograms for women) and the response, especially from the conservative contingent of bloggers.
Characteristic phrases in those posts include “This kind of crap,” “Comrade Edwards is going to force you to go to the doctor whether you like it or not,” and “a Howard Dean moment.”
All this and more can be found at ~ John Edwards On Patient Compliance ~
The gazebo on the Tipton Iowa courthouse lawn
Footnotes
- AlignMap is my professional web site and blog that focus on patient compliance, also known as adherence to treatment ~back~
ok ok but how do you take one pill four times a day
Comment by ben — September 6, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
You imply that Tipton, Iowa (pronounced Tip-Ten Ah-Wah)is not a place of significance. Ioweegans take their politics seriously. The rolling hills of eastern Iowa create possibly the most beautiful landscape on earth. That and there are bunches of hog farms there.
Comment by Mary — September 6, 2007 @ 8:09 pm