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January 24, 2007
Washington State Bureaucrats Regulate Romance
At last bureaucrats have addressed the problem of people falling in love with whomever they please.
In Washington State, the government's misguided intrusion into healthcare is extending into even more personal areas. Healthcare providers — doctors, opticians, dental hygienists, etc. — cannot engage in any sort of romantic activity with anyone who has been a patient within the last two years, or with their close relatives, or with any former patient even after two years if there exists "an imbalance of power, influence, opportunity and/or special knowledge of the professional relationship."
Apparently the encroaching socialization of medicine and the permanent open season declared on the medical profession by pathologically greedy trial lawyers like John Edwards aren't driving doctors out of existence fast enough, so now bureauweenies are looking for a way to keep them from reproducing.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 24, 2007 9:33 PM
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So much for keeping the state out of people's bedrooms, eh?
Posted by: V the K at January 25, 2007 3:11 AM
Oh come on! Opticians and dental hygienists?? Does anyone DATE their dental hygienists?? A better question - whould a dental hygienists ever date a 'client'?
Although I did get "tight" with a girl who worked in my opticians office once (I was young, then) - when she was fitting me for contacts we looked into each others eyes and... never mind. It definitely would have been illegal in Washing State. :-)
The good old "State". Damned comforting to know they're 'watching out for us', isn't it?
Posted by: jimbo at January 25, 2007 6:32 AM
This is tyranny, nothing more and nothing less.
Posted by: Chris at January 25, 2007 12:56 PM
