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> Safety first, full stop, no exceptions. And here you are, cutting-edg hospitals running 2012 versions of modern software, and paying millions of dollars for
by conanbatt 8y ago
> Safety first, full stop, no exceptions.
And here you are, cutting-edg hospitals running 2012 versions of modern software, and paying millions of dollars for the privilege.
The direction has to be exactly the opposite, by giving the patient increasingly more control over his own health.
- Fomite 8y agoHaving seen several talks from some patient advocates recently, I'm skeptical that's a good idea.
- conanbatt 8y agoI think health services are some of the most misunderstood by the population above everything else.
- Pharmakon 8y agoPatients are the worst at their own health, and often deluded about their ability to manage it. Gwyneth Paltrow and homeopaths don’t rake in money because people make great decisions. When you “empower” patients past their competence you get Steve Jobs in the ground. If he had just been another schmuck, he’d probably still be alive.
- conanbatt 8y agoHealth services are in service of the patients, not on your commoner opinion of what health should be and how it should be imparted.
- ionised 8y agoAnd being in service of the patient often requires not doing what the patient wants, because the patient is not a medical professional and doesn't know shit.
- dabbledash 8y agoMost people taking homeopathic medicine want their symptoms to get better. It’s not as though they have some different definition of a “good health outcome,” they’re just mislead about the effects of the what they’re buying.
- conanbatt 8y agoPlacebos work. Sad but true.