“During the Super Bowl two years ago, a commercial aired featuring a doctor questioning his patient, a man in boxer shorts sitting on an exam table, about whether he’d been tested for cortical spreading depression. The patient begins to say he doesn’t remember, and suddenly flood lights go up. The patient is surrounded by doctors in white coats sitting in a theatre round. One by one, the doctors stand up and recite entries from the patient’s medical records. When they finish, the mortified patient looks at his doctor and says, “Um, can I put my pants back on, please?” The commercial was for GE’s electronic health records system, and I remember thinking: “Was this an ad FOR electronic health records, or AGAINST them?”.”
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Corinne Carey, ACLU, 6 June 2012
