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Whenever I go to the doctor these days they sit facing the computer just reading what the nurse wrote and typing like a stenographer. As a patient, it’s very fr
by donatj 3y ago
Whenever I go to the doctor these days they sit facing the computer just reading what the nurse wrote and typing like a stenographer. As a patient, it’s very frustrating and disconcerting. It really does very little to inspire confidence. Sure, what I am saying is being heard and logged but the subtlety and tone is missed in the log and thus often missed by the preoccupied doctor themselves. It really feels like talking to someone half paying attention while they do their homework.
I am old enough to remember when it wasn’t like this; I would LOVE to just be able to go in and talk to a doctor like they and I are both human beings, with shared life experiences and understanding. Hell, have an audio recording going for butt covering purposes if they need it.
Going to the pediatrician with my new daughter has been a strange breath of fresh air. They look us in the eyes and talk to my wife and I like humans. Far less time spent playing stenographer. It’s such an interesting flip.
- Atotalnoob 3y agoI know someone who is a medical scribe for a practice. They follow the doctor around and write out everything. It's fairly common, maybe explore a different doctor
- jlpom 3y agoI know a company who does that using speech recognition (Nabla), but no physicians I have met had a scribe, only observing / learning residents (« internes » here). Outside of consultations my dad records itself and sends it to its secretary. On a side note I wish there was a way to communicate with (good) physicians asynchronously (via text for exemple) for non trivial issues, or something that allows them the time to research and think about an issue, which you don’t have the time during a consultation, without waiting months before the next appointment. Some try to get up to knowledge and read in front of me but, it doesn’t takes them more than 1 mn so they often have a shallow understanding. I’ve also met terrible ones who where annoyed that I knew more about the subject than they did and discouraged me from doing my own research (even from cochrane and serious meta-analysis), but I guess it is more a problem of the hubris of some french doctors than a process one (accordingly most of my issues stems from the fact that it is difficult to reliability avoid ignorants, that doesn’t care, or arrogant physicians that I could book, more than any other issues including software).