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*** Official Corona Virus Thread ***
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My email is ridden with massive policy changes about COVID and all other aspects of patient care on a daily basis.
It has been this way for a while but over the past 3 or 4 years has gotten much worse.
There is no way any sort of employee to whom these policies are mandated can keep up with them all.
That is why there exists a constant confusion and lack of logic like you are describing.
Yea I figured. I didnt get mad and blow up on her. My reaction was more of a confused WTF??
It's happening.
A lot of hospitals are now offering direct messaging to doctors.
A good idea in theory, but in certain types of patients it's an AWFUL idea.
"Doc, I wrote you a 4 page email last night (Sunday), it's now 8AM Monday morning and you haven't read it you lazy piece of sh!t?"
That's a horrible idea. Doctors' time is worth $. It takes time to write emails, especially if some patients are hypochondriacs.
Doctors used to make house calls. Somehow, tons of administration, bureaucracy, and management got involved in medicine and now there's less access to doctors' time at appointments, fewer doctors, costlier care, yet ubiquitous "health management" I can't avoid even though I want to.
I bet the PCP I talked to about the vaccine is going to close up with the latest mandate.
I have been doing that with my doctor for years?
Also had the same doctor for 15 years and we have a good rapport. I dont send him stupid messages.
Its normally " Hey I did "x" here are my symptoms , I dont need to come in do I? "
That's great if you have that sort of relationship with your Doc and he voluntarily allows you do that. Probably bad if it's expected by everyone
4 pages, sent at night on a weekend, and asking him why he hasn't responded the following morning?
NO!4 pages, sent at night on a weekend, and asking him why he hasn't responded the following morning?
They have a character limit.
heh, i have memories of sitting in the car as a kid, waiting for my dad while he was on a house call...we'd be on our way somewhere and he'd have to swing by and check on someone.
ironically, he was instrumental in creating NJ's first HMO back in the 70's, for all the right reasons - think it was aimed largely at providing health care access for NJ's considerable migrant worker community. but that was arguably part of the foundation of the bureaucracy and administration that ultimately phased out things like house calls. kind of like the blacksmith making auto parts, i suppose....
doctor patient relationship, what's that?
I've been part of the HMO system since the start of my working career and before then it was military dispensaries and tripler.
I only go in for emergencies these days
that's why I almost died after my appendix burst
figured I was just going to get the standard take two aspirins and call me in the morning response.
I've been part of the HMO system since the start of my working career and before then it was military dispensaries and tripler.
I only go in for emergencies these days
that's why I almost died after my appendix burst
figured I was just going to get the standard take two aspirins and call me in the morning response.
For $200 a year, i belong to One Medical. It's like an affordable concierge medical practice. Direct contact and emails with your Primary. They can handle a lot of routine blood tests etc right there in their own offices. and if i have anything urgent and my primary isn't around, i can literally walk in to any of their offices around Manhattan and be seen right away. Never waited more than 5 minutes for any appointment in 10 years
I just got my new mask for school
I have students come to class and say, "I sent you an email an hour ago. Why didn't you reply?"
I say, "I've been teaching for the last 4 hours?"
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Seen this argument a lot and I dont like it. You help them because its the right thing to do.
Then you charge them 30000X mark up
The interesting thing now is we're getting a lot more of the patients on the nutty side of things. It's become a lot more regular to hear the "COVID isn't real, as I sit here sick as hell/vaxx microchip" mantra.
We intubated one yesterday not because of COVID, but because she needed to "take a rest."