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"Smart Pills": What is your opinion about drugs embedded with microchips that allow your health provider to monitor whether you take your meds?

Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• Big brother, i decide whether i take med - noone else

• crazy idea!

• can we say Big Brother problems????

• oh hell no

• of little interest to me

• What r you gonna do? Flush your warfarin? They paid for it , let it sit in their cabinets.

• violation of privacy rights!

• huge potential for abuse

• The chip should give effect.

• I think this is the mark of the beast and they will be able to control you once you get these chips.

• Maybe this would be ok with controlled drugs but otherwise it really isn't their business

• Too much like "Big Brother" is watching

• My PCP is too busy to spend 15 minutes with me let alone track my meds.

• great idea. would help eliminate drug abuse.

• we need far more BASICS & less 'gee whiz!"

• Hitler all over again!

• Many patients are non-co

• It's a patients right not to take meds unless forgetfullness like Alzheimer's or court ordered.

• Simply ridiculous; we have personal responsibility for our own health and choices.

• No, im tired of such invasive measures

• That's just stupid and nobody should be monitored

• Invasion of privacy

• Smart Pills for Bigbrother ALL you on that chip! I wont get a dog with a chip.STOP letting the Gov

• I think that would be too much invasion of privacy!

• Are you kidding? Way too invasive.

• Wouldn't want any part of them

• Big Pharma is reaching into your soul...can't trust them.

• this wll stop the miss use of drugs and also could keep an eye on kids who dont comply

• what else is it monitoring?! it sounds good on first glance but there is a huge grey area here!

• demonic ..no way!

• This information could end up in the hands of ins. companies!! It's invasion of privacy!

• what's to say i give the drugs to another person who will take it

• Violation of right to privacy.

• no way, who all is going to see this and abuse it????

• smart pills should never be manfactured, ever.

• Sounds like sci-fi to me!

• Insurance companies will use this to get doctors in trouble and try and deny benefits to the insured

• Orwellian: will they monitor my shits too when I flush those microchips down the drain?

• too invasive

• what if another person takes the meds?

• this is really BIG BROTHER/

• What BS!!!!

• Choice not monitoring

• absurd

• Forget it!

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• Don't we have better things to research??

• blasphemy 666

• unknown health risks from electronics involved

• big brother

• And what else would they like to find out about us

• Another way to be controlled. I think it's stupid, doctors can do a drug test instead

• No way!

• lol jk

• OMG,..Smart Pills-Microchips?That's been invented?You've got to be kidding?LAME

• never happen

• Violation of privacy

• invasion if privacy

• Big brother!

• No way

• They just want to be sure you are taking their poison.

• we pay for services by doctors - somehow that seems to be forgotten/overlooked.

• SEVERE invasion of privacy. I would be FURIOUS if my dr did that to me. I would not take the meds!

• hell no

• Gives medical profession too much power.

• No way!!!! sign of the beast

• Its just another new world order tool to track and enslave you.

• No, No, No and NO!

• Don't just think it's huge potential for abuse. Think it's a "100% certainty!"

• STUPID

• TERRIBLE IDEA

• They didnt have a "NO Way" option, but what Dr. is going to have the time to monitor this??

• This is a new idea for me.

• good for people who abuse drugs

• next step will then be a chip in your body! then people will be able to monitor everything we do!

• invasion of privacey

• this has to be a joke .... how ridiculous .... what get scanned like a dog who is chiped

• I don't need a microchip thank you very much but NO

• That just screams, "Big Brother."

• Big Brother is watching

• sounds like the Twilight Zone!

• wth?!isthisaSERIOUS ?

• The misuse and abuse WILL be by our so called government.. of no value to medical establishment.

• NO WAY! If a doctor has to do that on certain meds then dont perscribe them

• never heard of this technology

Related Articles

• Look out, your medicine is watching you | Reuters

• http://www.healthymagination.com/blog/smart-pill-technology-may-help-patients-monitor-their-health/

• NHS tests Proteus Biomedical’s smart pills | mobihealthnews

• Big Pharmaceutical Companies are Starting To Microchip Drugs : Think Feed