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The face of postmodern medicine: lying.

The following appeared in the Nov. 27, 2009 Newsweek article "The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care" about the Cleveland Clinic:

In this post I make a very shameful comparison. Shameful to the healthcare industry, that is, and coming from an unusual perspective due to my diverse professional background.

In my series on health IT (starting here) whose human engineering is beyond poor, down to the level of ill conceived, philistine and presenting clinicians with a mission hostile user experience, I have kept a neutral stance regarding the role of our so-called professional society representatives.