Are Doctors Still Needed?
A survey of 1,100 U.S. patients by Accenture, a management consulting and technology services company, found that 90% of patients want tools such as online medical record access and appointments to self-manage their health care. But nearly the same percentage (85%) say they want to preserve their in-person interactions with their physicians when needed.
What?!? How dare they want to meet with a real, live, authentic doctor? That’s preposterous! You can’t create a healthcare system that sabotages and handcuffs physicians with these kinds of absurd demands by patients. Well, that is going to throw a wrench in the covert plans of hospital administrators nationwide. How are they going to increase their pay without getting rid of us?
You are all correct, and yes indeed, it is the private sector and those lovable admins who are making your lives miserable.
I’m going to be off-topic here, but really want to get this out. I just got a new phone book cover with local advertising, and the first thing I saw was an ad for the local chiropractic clinic, and it offered DOT physicals. WTF? How in hell can these guys, who do not learn from the same books as the medical community, be trusted to evaluate a person’s physical qualification to drive? Do all states allow this, or is it just Colorado? This could explain some of the Driving with Dementia gang.
Doug, as a patient I love my Dr. but Dr’s never touch their patients anymore, just write orders for test that are usually not needed. We are allowed one complaint each visit. Nobody ever gets a diagnosis. If the patient was allowed to voice all three or four of their complaints, they may not have to wait for 15 years to get a diagnosis like I did.
Of course they are need. Who else will put their license and reputation on the line managing all those PA’s who will be doing the doc’s job.
Of COURSE they are needed – by the personal injury lawyers. How else would those parasites survive?