Just talking about this yesterday! That was a major part of my role in hospitals as a department director, either answering quality questions for CMS or gathering other data. I recently retired and that was a big part of the reason - the government and Joint Commission kept coming up with more things to review.
When I go to the Dr., it’s usually a 20 minute appointment, wherein at least half of it is the damned Dr. typing on the computer that now sits in every exam room! Then I go to my “medical records” on-line and see that a lot of it is erroneous. And the other thing is that no diagnosis, is ever removed. Your medical record is like a “roach motel” things go on, but never come off. Under Obola, I was convinced that the game was a “point and figure” effort that told your medical care providers when you were no longer “worthy” of treatment. It’s there to signal when it’s “time for you to go!”
We are friends with a couple who are in their mid 80’s. Recently the wife had a heart valve problem and the “team of doctors” attending to her “decided” that she should just be put in hospice and allowed to die. Only one of the doctors rose to her defense saying that he thought she was strong enough to undergo the surgery and should have a chance at living. That was about six months ago. We had dinner with the two of them last week, and she’s completely recovered, and to look at her, you’d never guess she’s 84. It is a perversion of the Hippocratic Oath what these doctors did (or at least tried to do), but this is what healthcare has devolved into thanks to Obola and Co. It’s simply getting rid of old/sick people and saving a buck so it can go to some illegal alien. When I think about our elected officials, like say that pig Dianne Feinstein, who is in her mid 80’s, and how her doctors wouldn’t think of telling her to go home and die, it makes my blood boil!