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A lack of creativity clogs up our doctors' offices
STLtoday.com ^ | 1-19-04 | Dale Dauten - Corporate Curmudgeon

Posted on 01/19/2004 8:40:54 AM PST by FairWitness

Edited on 05/11/2004 5:35:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

There is a huge opportunity to improve costs and care during routine patient visits.

"When the guy who was making the first drawing board got it wrong, what did he go back to?"

Play along with me here. Picture a 1950s television set. Next, a 1950s shopping center. Now the old 1950s computer, the Univac. Picture a '50s telephone in its "phone niche," then an old grocery store. Quaint, no? OK, now for the point: Picture a 1950s doctor's office.


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KEYWORDS: business; economics; healthcare; medicine
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To: twigs
I believe you, but your experience is an exception to the trend. The NP's are doing very well.
21 posted on 01/19/2004 11:33:51 AM PST by Taliesan
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To: FairWitness
A lot of people take someone along when they go to the doctor's office alone

The logic of this statement eludes me.

22 posted on 01/19/2004 11:38:14 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: FairWitness
bump
23 posted on 01/19/2004 11:44:32 AM PST by ambrose
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