“Patients are scolded for “bothering” nurses”?!?
AI could (and probably now can) decide on the ‘best test’.
AI could (and probably now can) interpret test results.
AI could (and probably now can) lay out a treatment plan.
AI could guide a surgery with image generation.
“The medicine is often out of stock. You leave with a prescription in hand and another bill to pay at a private pharmacy.”
I assume the author would like a 100% market system wherein paying at the private pharmacy would happen 100% of the time and not just “often”.
There are private basic medical care coverage plans sold in Britain.
The English NHS might be changed so it would pay for a resident of England to join one.
This is not just picture from abroad.
Since Obamacare kicked in, the US clinics started to resemble this too!
In England, your primary care doctor at one time would get capitated amounts for his patients. He would then buy the best private plans for the care he could not himself provide.
The traditional British NHS was a network of regional trusts with some trusts roughly equivalent to the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.
The current US system with entities like iNova (Northern Virgina) and Partners (metro Boston) is very similar to the traditional NHS system except that the US ‘trusts’ have to fight entities like insurance companies to get paid.
People in President Teddy Roosevelt’s time would think of entities like Johns Hopkins and Partners as trusts.
“Even early in the day, the benches are already full.”
One hundred and fifty years ago the rich shunned hospitals.
Eleanor Roosevelt had her surgery at home.
Starting around 1910, US hospitals ‘cleaned up’ their act.
I have a “Tarascon Pediatric Outpatient Pocketbook”.
It has a 1936 image called “Children’s Clinic” on it.
In the foreground is a doctor about to examine a baby in the crowded waiting room.
Behind the crowd is a nurse.
In the background a second doctor is looking apprehensively partially behind the door of a room.
My neighbor has a physician assistant daughter married to a doctor in a mid-size city.
Despite the doctor’s connections, my neighbor still had a few weeks wait for her cancer surgery.
The surgeon was able to remove the cancer.
If we want faster cancer treatment times, it is my understanding that Medicare funding for residencies would have to be increased.
There’s a reason why there’s a Turkish phrasebook sitting on top of two Turkish dictionaries near my PC.