Posted on 05/29/2015 8:28:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. “How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978?” he asked with a smile. “I didn’t,” I replied.
“I had no idea what was coming. I just felt I’d chosen the wrong vocation.”
I was reminded of this exchange upon receiving my med-school class’s 40th-reunion report and reading some of the entries. In general, my classmates felt fulfilled by family, friends, and the considerable achievements of their professional lives. But there was an undercurrent of deep disappointment, almost demoralization, with what medical practice had become.
The complaint was not financial but vocational — an incessant interference with their work, a deep erosion of their autonomy and authority, a transformation from physician to “provider.”
As one of them wrote, “My colleagues who have already left practice all say they still love patient care, being a doctor. They just couldn’t stand everything else.” By which he meant “a never-ending attack on the profession from government, insurance companies, and lawyers . . . progressively intrusive and usually unproductive rules and regulations,” topped by an electronic-health-records (EHR) mandate that produces nothing more than “billing and legal documents” — and degraded medicine.
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Red Tape ,The Communist Way ,every Doctor will be issued with his own government approved Rubber Stamp ,LOL
Since they are now basically typing up their own orders that frees up the nurses from having to do it as in the past. So why is it you can never find a nurse on a floor when you need one? They used to spend half their shift at their station scribing doctors orders now what are they doing?
Most anything government touches — it screws up.
Put the highest paid guy in the clinic to work clattering at a keyboard. Sounds like a model of efficiency to me. /s
OBAMACARE!
The whole point of the medical electronic records system was to collect data on Americans and have it all in one place.
We need a good old fashioned physician’s revolt. Start with practices that charge fees based on actual cost not inflated by government, insurance and lawyers.
You apparently have not noticed that the gov does not allow nurses to do data entry. Physicians are now spending literally half of their time filling out forms on the government’s data base.
“emergency-room doctors spend 43 percent of their time entering electronic records information, 28 percent with patients.”
“Medicare payments will be cut, by 1 percent this year, rising to 3 percent (potentially 5 percent) in subsequent years.”
EHRs reduced efficiency making a reduction in pay of up to 5% relatively less than the cost of reduced efficiency especially when you consider the start up costs, maintenance costs and compliance costs of EHRs.
The idea of EHRs is to centralize health care delivery into ever larger institutions and organizations, advance the surveillance state, make treatment conditioned on obeisance of the government direcetive (ie force inoculations as a condition for other treatment), and as a means to punish non-conformers (ie psychiatric diagnoses).
This is the totalitarian state. What is not forbidden must be made compulsory.
Sadly, I wouldn’t doubt this to be on the agenda!
Let’s be honest, in this day and age, all the politicians, pundits, and the media need is just a HINT of an issue and they will RUN with it: Reid and Romney’s tax returns, SNL & Palin (Russia comments), Cochran vs. McDaniel, etc...
Truth be damned, they will run it into the ground and make it the truth to most of the LIV! So, if there is ANYTHING in your health file that could be used against you - THEY WILL!
I see it coming!! I know the HIPAA laws say it is illegal, but it was illegal for the IRS to share information with Congress and the WH - how did that work out for those Tea Party companies?
Obama care is exempted from HIPPA
Building that NSA data base. Obama needs to know if you have an enlarged prostate.
I know mine is.
When was this written? Ten years ago?
I recently had a mind blowing experience.
I changed doctors due to a retirement. Both are affiliated with different,very good, Boston area hospitals.
I signed giving permission to my former doctor to send the records to my new doctor.
The records were going about 10 miles.
They were sent to my new doctor by a company called HealthPort in Alpharetta,GA.
MA,to GA,and back to MA.
This may be old news to some but I was furious.
A private company in Georgia has all of my health info.
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