doctor's complaint. To ignore it is to miss the issue entirely. Why must a physician covertly oppose a bill that forces her/him to violate ethical, legal and moral responsibilities as caregiver? The American Medical Association should be advocating against this vocally and through every legal and legislative channel available because even if they are happy to turn a blind eye to the rape of their women patients, this rape opens up the prospect of physicians being sued for unlawful touching and for malpractice. Please, physicians, urge your medical societies to speak up. Once our country gets used to the notion of legislative invasions (metaphorical and actual) into the doctor/patient relationship, there is no end to where we could go with this. Men, wake up -- even you might be threatened by this slippery slope. I'm not a physician, but I think I can identify with how our doctor/guest blogger feels. I'm a design engineer, and while I've worked in a variety of fields -- defense, semiconductors, communication -- my most enjoyable experience was a stint I did designing medical equipment. Specifically, ultrasound machines. For about nine years I helped define and design new high-performance ultrasound imaging hardware. Ultrasound is tough, subtle stuff: you're trying to detect tiny signals reflected from the interior of the body and reassemble and present them in a way that makes sense to a physician or sonographer. There was a lot of challenge and frustration as a team of experienced engineers and programmers tried to weave