“Read a month or so ago that teaching hospitals are going back to that type of diagnosis. Checking online with symptoms just isn’t good for the bottom line, I guess.”
Diagnosis by computer can be harmful to our bottom line. A couple of years ago a couple decided their primary docs for decades was to old to be good doctors.
So they went to other primary doctors in their hmo. On each visit, their new doctors never really examined them. The docs sat behind their desks and asked questions and entered the data into the computer.
After their visits with the whiz kid docs they bragged to our group about their great new mds. My wife, who spent most of her adult life as the head RN in a busy Family Practice office, told them, “What a waste of your time, you could have stayed at home and used your PC.
About a year later, the guy had problems and went to the clinic. His new doc wasn’t there, and he saw his old out of date doctor. After a few questions, the old doc had our friend remove his shirt and used his stethoscope.
The old doctor told our friend that he was in severe heart failure. They put our friend in a wheel chair and took him to the cardiologists in the building. They did an ekg and then had an ambulance take him to the local cardiac cath lab at another hospital.
Our friend survived, thanks to the old out of date doctor, who used some old fashioned diagnosis procedures.
Diagnosis by computer can be harmful to our bottom line. A couple of years ago a couple decided their primary docs for decades was to old to be good doctors.
So they went to other primary doctors in their hmo. On each visit, their new doctors never really examined them. The docs sat behind their desks and asked questions and entered the data into the computer.
After their visits with the whiz kid docs they bragged to our group about their great new mds. My wife, who spent most of her adult life as the head RN in a busy Family Practice office, told them, “What a waste of your time, you could have stayed at home and used your PC.
About a year later, the guy had problems and went to the clinic. His new doc wasn’t there, and he saw his old out of date doctor. After a few questions, the old doc had our friend remove his shirt and used his stethoscope.
The old doctor told our friend that he was in severe heart failure. They put our friend in a wheel chair and took him to the cardiologists in the building. They did an ekg and then had an ambulance take him to the local cardiac cath lab at another hospital.
Our friend survived, thanks to the old out of date doctor, who used some old fashioned diagnosis procedures.
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This is standard in many clinics and new practices. Hosptialist doctors are poorly trained.