Art Caplan has an editorial in the July 22 Science, reprinted at AJOB/blog.bioethics.net, in which he criticizes the misuse of “Nazi-doctor” analogies in bioethics debates. (For better or worse, he manages the whole thing without ever once mentioning Godwin’s Law.)

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Gina Kolata reported yesterday in the New York Times that Medicare – in an effort to speed compliance with electronic medical-records management – is distributing its own patient-records software free of charge to any doctor in the nation. The system is public domain, and boasts a volunteer user tech-support community; it apparently also allows for user modification for those inclined to do so. Given also that it’s apparently hard to install and has a low installed user base, it’s basically Linux for doctors!

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