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what will India do now? on Oprah

Posted By: mdlfcrs on 2007-10-10
In Reply to: The electronic medical record has replaced MTs at my job..it's all over! - MimiMT

just happened to catch a small piece - Indian women are surrogate mothers for women in US who cannot/will not get pregnant - 6000.00 going rate.


I am scared at the simple thought that this record goes straight from the doc (whom we all know can say/type wrong thing, i.e. right versus left) and no one to catch errors - straight to record.




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