[TurboZamboni]

⦁ Is your insurance card requested before your name? ⦁ Are you given questionnaires to gather personal details on you and your family unrelated to the visit? ⦁ Are you forced to see a physician’s assistant instead of a physician? ⦁ If you want to pay cash, are you made to feel second-class? ⦁ Does the consent form force you to agree to other things (e.g. research) even if you only want to consent to treatment and billing? ⦁ Does the doctor look you in the eye or stare at the computer? ⦁ Is a scribe in the room listening and clicking your words into a computer? ⦁ Has your physician told you your tests and treatment options could be limited by the computer? ⦁ If you want to talk about more than one issue, must you make another appointment?

[Jack Black]

Can the Patient-Doctor relationship be saved?

No, it cannot. The Government is in too deep.

[nickcarraway]

Doctors need to realize, in the age of ACA, they are just processors of government property.

[caddie]

The patients voted for Rats. They knew the Rats would socialize medicine. The voters got what they wanted.

[Moltke]

Scientologist propaganda.

[Dawn53Fl]

No.

The ones that wanted the patient/doctor relationship have resigned (2 of my doctors gave up their practices on Jan. 1) Some of the specialists moved into Big Pharma jobs. I haven’t spoken with one doctor who thinks the new restrictions are “good”...most are more than willing to complain, even to the patient.

But as far as hospitalists, they’re nothing new. I have had to be hospitalized off and on for the past 10 years. Hospitalists have been taking over for doctors for at least that period of time.

I’m not sure hospitalists are a bad idea. They are at the hospital for the entire day so they can coordinate with specialists, test results, your own GP, etc. Your own doctor would only be able to come for a few minute, and coordination of care/tests, etc. would be very hard for a GP who has to maintain a practice also.