{"id":3057,"date":"2016-08-05T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2016-08-05T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:33:18","slug":"no-diagnosis-for-you-matey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2016\/08\/05\/no-diagnosis-for-you-matey\/","title":{"rendered":"No Diagnosis for You, Matey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little amusement for the weekend, from a friend who lives in the States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I received a state of the arts cardio monitor, <em>per<\/em> a prescription from a cardiologist, to determine if I have an irregular heart beat. \u00a0All chrome and aluminium and clean and small with various electronic devices to transmit &#8220;information&#8221; to the company. \u00a040 pages of instructions for the phone-like device. \u00a0At one point the book (and the device) instruct me (i.e., tell me, not ask me) to push YES\u00a0regarding company&#8217;s use of my information for research. \u00a0I push NO.<\/p>\n<p>Device will not allow diagnostic testing.<\/p>\n<p>Call doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor upset I won&#8217;t allow use of info.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t care UNTIL they told me I can&#8217;t use this device UNLESS I consent to use of the information for research. \u00a0Now they are scrambling to &#8216;override&#8217; the yes-only option, if possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to admit that, from a professional point of view, that&#8217;s kind of brilliant. \u00a0And I suppose that it is consent, in a Hobson&#8217;s choice kind of a way.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little amusement for the weekend, from a friend who lives in the States: I received a state of the arts cardio monitor, per a prescription from a cardiologist, to determine if I have an irregular heart beat. \u00a0All chrome and aluminium and clean and small with various electronic devices to transmit &#8220;information&#8221; to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2016\/08\/05\/no-diagnosis-for-you-matey\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-ethics","category-curios"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}