>>> “If you believe me that all we are doing is organizing that information to make it easier for your doctor, I’m going to get a little paternalistic here: I’m never going to let that get opted out,” Dr. Feinberg says. “It’s going to screw up your treatment. We’re not going to be able to take care of you.”
Planet Money had an interview with Dr. Feinberg, the head of the Google health initiative. He was asked about people potentially opting out. His response was extremely paternalistic.
He said that he views everybody in the system as his patients, and he thinks this data aggregation and analysis from Google will improve care. So as "our" doctor he cannot morally allow any of his his patients to withdraw themselves from the program because, to him, that would be akin to giving you inferior care.
So this guy gets to unilaterally appoint himself as our doctor? I certainly didn't hire him.
>>> He boasts about his $5 Wal-Mart fleece jacket, and is an astrology enthusiast. “I’m positive,” Dr. Feinberg says to a reporter good naturedly, if inaccurately, “you’re Sagittarius.”
He's also heavily into astrology and was asking the interviewer his sign and trying to guess it. I certainly would never hire a doctor that was into astrology. How can I fire this guy?
How TF do you become a doctor that believes in astrology?