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Regardless of if you feel they are worthless, IMO, the people who create them should not be asked to work for free. I've never found the notes from mine to be "

by throwaway2016a 3y ago

Regardless of if you feel they are worthless, IMO, the people who create them should not be asked to work for free. I've never found the notes from mine to be "worthless", you may want to find a new doctor. Also, your TFA is kind of unnecessarily vulgar (You do know what the F in TFA is for?) here seeing as it doesn't change the point of my original comment. I did, however, add the word "all" incase someone took my comment to read that I didn't think any insurance covered it.

gnicholas 3y ago
> I've never found the notes from mine to be "worthless", you may want to find a new doctor. Thanks for the thought, but unfortunately our whole system (Stanford Health Care, FWIW) is like this. My doctor is better than my kids' doctor, and my wife's doctor. The incentives are just not there for them to engage, so mostly I get nurse messages that are useless. It appears to be a copy/paste from google (or some internal system), basically. As for "TFA", I do know what it means and see it used here regularly [1] and without meaning anything harsh. It's not like some people say "TA" and some people say "TFA". It's just TFA. Regardless, I didn't meant to offend you or make it seem like I was demeaning you. I was just pointing out that the article addressed your complaint, and indicated that the vast majority of insurance plans don't leave the cost up to the patient. I nonetheless appreciate your feedback and will consider "TFA" more carefully in the future. If you have any equally pithy alternatives, I would welcome them! 1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tfa https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tfa
- throwaway2016a 3y ago
  Maybe there would be an incentive for them to engage if they were getting paid for it... granted there would also need to be an incentive for them to not abuse it. But that's already an issue, for example: I had a dentist who would routinely recommend procedures I didn't need. I know a few primary care doctors and they are all overworked and overbooked. I can't imagine any of them going above an beyond unfortunately (not because they don't want to but because they don't have the time). But most of the one's I know hate the system too. I appreciate the clarification on tone. As a dev I read TFA in the same time as RTFM (as in: why didn't you read the article you moron?). But I get your usage as well.

gnicholas 3y ago

> I've never found the notes from mine to be "worthless", you may want to find a new doctor. Thanks for the thought, but unfortunately our whole system (Stanford Health Care, FWIW) is like this. My doctor is better than my kids' doctor, and my wife's doctor. The incentives are just not there for them to engage, so mostly I get nurse messages that are useless. It appears to be a copy/paste from google (or some internal system), basically. As for "TFA", I do know what it means and see it used here regularly [1] and without meaning anything harsh. It's not like some people say "TA" and some people say "TFA". It's just TFA. Regardless, I didn't meant to offend you or make it seem like I was demeaning you. I was just pointing out that the article addressed your complaint, and indicated that the vast majority of insurance plans don't leave the cost up to the patient. I nonetheless appreciate your feedback and will consider "TFA" more carefully in the future. If you have any equally pithy alternatives, I would welcome them! 1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tfa https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tfa

throwaway2016a 3y ago
Maybe there would be an incentive for them to engage if they were getting paid for it... granted there would also need to be an incentive for them to not abuse it. But that's already an issue, for example: I had a dentist who would routinely recommend procedures I didn't need. I know a few primary care doctors and they are all overworked and overbooked. I can't imagine any of them going above an beyond unfortunately (not because they don't want to but because they don't have the time). But most of the one's I know hate the system too. I appreciate the clarification on tone. As a dev I read TFA in the same time as RTFM (as in: why didn't you read the article you moron?). But I get your usage as well.