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Also, the doctor is aware of your health history Your doctor skims your notes in the 20 seconds between the receptionist calling your name and you entering her
by gaius 8y ago
Also, the doctor is aware of your health history
Your doctor skims your notes in the 20 seconds between the receptionist calling your name and you entering her office, in handwriting she can barely read herself, and has forgotten you before you’re even back in the waiting room after spending 5 minutes talking to you while she’s really thinking about the new Audi. That’s as far as the awareness goes.
- tptacek 8y agoThat is not at all the experience I have with my doctor, where the intake NP does a whole litany of the past several years worth of doctor visits before I’m seen. I’m ok and I think glad that pharmacists don’t even have access to that information.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoOn your first visit or every visit thereafter? I think the issue is the overhead of unecessary repeat visits.
- tptacek 8y agoEvery visit thereafter.
- aesclepius 8y agoThanks for speaking for the entire medical profession. That is in fact what a terrible physician does, and not what myself or other newly trained physicians aspire to do.
- thatcat 8y agoIf you live in a location that has poor selection of GPs then it should be your choice to opt out without denying yourself access necessary medication.
- panzagl 8y agoIf you don't go to a doctor, how do you know it's necessary?
- WillPostForFood 8y agoIf you’ve been taking the same medication for 10 years, then on day 1 of year 11 you need a refill, pretty good chance you know it is necessary. I wouldn’t claim you never need to see a doctor, but it is equally absurd to suggest you always need to see a doctor. My experience has been that I ask for refills, and my doctor unquestioningly gives them. It would save the whole system money and time if I could just refill them myself.
- phil21 8y agoYou may not aspire to it, but you likely will have to do it if you want to remain employed in many areas. I have multiple friends who made it all the way through residency and have since stopped practicing within years of "graduating. The OP describes the profession much better than you do, as a whole. Double booking patients, requiring certain revenue targets, massive amounts of useless paperwork, etc. Considering the varying ranges of where they took up residency I'd say this is endemic industry-wide. Also jives with my personal experiences with the medical field.
- adrr 8y ago
- throwaway-hn123 8y agoI'm guessing you go in with that attitude and then whine when you get treated like shit.
- hansthehorse 8y agoI sit with my primary care doctor at least a half hour each visit, but then I'm lucky. I live very close to a first class VA medical center. I don't believe the west palm beach center can be beat.