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    Default Doctors back plan to store medical info under your skin

    CHICAGO (AFP) - Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says.

    Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation's largest doctors group said in a report.

    The association adopted a policy Monday stating that the devices can improve the "safety and efficiency of patient care" by helping to identify patients and enabling secure access to clinical information.

    These radio frequency identification tags (RFIDs) are already used by Wal-Mart and other businesses to speed up their shipping systems by sending out small signals that can be scanned more easily than bar codes.

    Implanting them in people "can improve the continuity and coordination of care with resulting reductions in adverse drug events and other medical errors," said the report prepared by the association's ethics committee.

    But the devices "also may pose some physical risks, compromise patient privacy, or present other social hazards."

    The main concern is protecting the privacy of the information stored on the devices.

    There are also health concerns.

    While the devices are removable and designed to stay in place, their small size could allow them to move to other parts of a person's body.

    They may also cause interference with electrical devices like defibrillators and it has not been determined what impact they would have on prescription drugs.

    The report concluded that it is "likely that utilization of RFID devices for medical purposes will expand."

    The US Food and Drug Administration has so far only approved "passive" tags for human implantation which cannot be altered once inserted and have a limited capacity and transmission range.

    The devices are also only allowed to contain a unique identification code in order to protect patient privacy.

    The FDA may eventually approve "active" devices which contain internal batteries and can be updated as a patient's condition changes.

    The association warned of "potential social consequences" such as using the devices for surveillance which could be an infringement on individual liberties.

    It recommended that the devices not be implanted without the informed consent of patients and that doctors monitor their use.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070626...onVnrV1usDW7oF

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    i don't think that is a bad idea at all. just a quick little "bleep" and they have all of you medical info. would we go as far as having insurance info on it as well?
    Does Monkeybone have to choke a bitch?
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    Who thinks it is the mark of the devil?

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    no mark yet Mtn. unless they wanna put a tat where the thing is located.
    Does Monkeybone have to choke a bitch?
    "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" —Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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    Quote Originally Posted by MtnBiker View Post
    Who thinks it is the mark of the devil?
    Mark of the Devil? I DEFINITELTY see the "Mark of Big Brother." Forget that crap.
    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke

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    Quote Originally Posted by MtnBiker View Post
    Who thinks it is the mark of the devil?
    That was my first thought when I started reading that, followed by Gunny's Big Brother tracking device. I won't be participating in that little program.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    That was my first thought when I started reading that, followed by Gunny's Big Brother tracking device. I won't be participating in that little program.
    Me either!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monkeybone View Post
    i don't think that is a bad idea at all. just a quick little "bleep" and they have all of you medical info. would we go as far as having insurance info on it as well?
    The chip would simply have a serial number. A national database would have that number linked to everything that you have ever done. Put is a gps transponder and you've got the perfect identification tool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MtnBiker View Post
    Who thinks it is the mark of the devil?
    It's got 666 written all over it.

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    I don't think it is the Mark of the Beast.

    I believe that it is the technology that allows the Prophesy regarding the Mark of the Beast to take place.

    I don't support it, because I don't want the process to be accepted as an every day thing in society, used for a good purpose like medical records, only later to be presented to us as something necessary and the acceptance of such implant as "nothing" out of the ordinary.

    Also, I don't accept it because I find it invasive. I think the possibilities are frightening that our government could trace our every move or even THINK the way they think, that they would have the power to do such, when THEY DON'T have such power, and our Constitution states that they don't have that power, in our Bill of Rights.

    And I am a law abiding citizen, I still know that the government does NOT have this power and should never have this power.

    A central data base on us has huge consequences of security that our government should NEVER be trusted with and could NEVER be trusted with. They are incompetent in most that they do, I am coming to believe!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe View Post
    .....A central data base on us has huge consequences of security that our government should NEVER be trusted with and could NEVER be trusted with. They are incompetent in most that they do, I am coming to believe!

    This sounds like a right-wing diatribe to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by glockmail View Post
    This sounds like a right-wing diatribe to me.
    Well, if you would call our founding Fathers Right Wing, and the Bill of Rights in the Constitution Diatribe, then yes, I gotta a little bit of BOTH in me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe View Post
    Well, if you would call our founding Fathers Right Wing, and the Bill of Rights in the Constitution Diatribe, then yes, I gotta a little bit of BOTH in me.
    Too early for that. I'll just instead.

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