Posted on 01/11/2013 4:09:04 PM PST by Kaslin
And the info they want isn’t necessarily medical. Some of the questions they now ask,
1. Do you use seatbelts in your car?
2. Is there a smoke alarm in your home?
3. Is there a carbon monoxide detector in your house?
4. Is there FIREARMS in your home?
Since when do these types of questions have to do with my dr caring for my stomach ache?
I agree, the doctor has access to all my records, medications, lab tests, other doctors i’ve seen and their results.
That allows her to be much more thorough and effective in the half hour to 45 minutes she spend with me in an office visit.
They sold the idea that digitized medical records as being more efficient, but the reality is that the purpose was for govt types to have unlimited access to our medical records. Also in obamacare, they have unlimited access to our bank records as well to make sure that we pay our medical bills in full. Also to see if anyone claims that they can’t pay their bills, then big brother can snoop on our bank account and if needed extract the funds to cover the bill. Yep it is in obamacare.
My thinking is take a look at what happened to Joe the Plumber. The beast went after him uncovering all kinds of records on him to embarrass him for argueing with baraq. Wanna bet that now medical records will be used by democrats to pummel their opposition? baraq got sealed records unsealed to win his US Senate seat, remember.
Yes - typist - AND mouse-ist too...... ;-)
Still... I am hoping for a good “country doctor”. I should be able to trust a professional with experience in the medical field, someone that isn’t worried because I am going to go and sue them. Very often I have been told that I have great intuition and a keen ability to notice the slightest change and that I should have been a doctor.
Right now I wonder what if I had gone to school to be a medical doctor instead of a professional engineer. Would there be a need for an old-school doctor? I know that the trend has been that everyone becomes a specialist... Is there not a need for a general practitioner anymore? I think there is, and I would gladly pay out of my own pocket for those services and tell the insurance companies and the government to stick it.
I would gladly pay out of my own pocket for those services and tell the insurance companies and the government to stick it.
Unfortunately, you are in the minority and few doctors can stay in business based on private pay = except those who cater to the wealthy only, and what does that leave for the rest? We have been conditioned to believe that medicine should be a “right” paid for by someone else... though food and shelter are not argueably less important we haven’t traditionally expected someone else to pay for our food or housing...but sadly for so many that philosophy is changing!
To answer your question, there is a great need for the traditional “country doctor”.. but the financial reality is at variance with the need. We are dumbing down health care by allowing lessor trained individuals to provide some level of care and will pay a price for this eventually, in lives, and morbidity.
I do not know, nor treat any engineers who would not have made excellent clinicians...analytical thinking is analytical thinking regardless the discipline!
I went to see my doctor last week for my checkup. He was telling me all about it. He's part of a hospital now, instead of the small group practice he was in. One of his partners retired rather than be part of it. The mandated computer system would have cost him $100K.
The government wants people to be employees of increasingly-large corporations. It makes us easier to keep under control. What is Communism but everybody working for a single huge corporation called the State?
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But, it is not my age that is the problem. We just had a new out of residency doctor join our group last year. He tried using th EMR I have not. He left to work for a hospital and is behind 3 months on his charting!!!!
But, it is not my age that is the problem. We just had a new out of residency doctor join our group last year. He tried using the EMR I have not. He left to work for a hospital and is behind 3 months on his charting!!!!
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