I am a glorified data entry clerk. For every minute I spend with the patient, I spend two or three minutes at a computer terminal entering data.
My doctor sits at a little desk in the exam room and types on a computer during almost the entire visit. She is so busy typing, there is no time to even look me in the eye while giving advice and instructions. It leaves me with the feeling that the visit is no better than a remote internet session.
Last visit, she even spent 10 minutes searching the internet on her computer for advice to answer a question that came up..... she asked me if I was taking the Vitamin D2 that she had prescribed. I told her that when I went to pick it up at the pharmacy and found that it was synthetic, I opted to instead go buy Vitamin D3 at the healthfood store and use it. She asked me why, and I replied that I had always heard that the real thing is better in several ways than the synthetic chemicals. She wanted to argue the point, so she began searching on her computer. She never found anything to refute my decision and was obviously a bit teed off, and typed frantically for a few more minutes. Most likely she was entering that I was not "being cooperative".
So now I need to try a different doctor next visit, but my choices on the Humana Medicare Advantage Plan are very limited. I miss the old "patient/doctor relationship.