No Humane ghost in the machine
Hello @steelweaver and @Alberto, the reflection about ‘good doctors’ and ‘systems’ triggered me to exemplification.
We often simplistic talks about good doctors. They have suffered the longest & toughest study and taken the Hippocratic oath. Only good people invest their intelligence and life so ‘insanely’, instead of pursuing personal wealth. Lately I’ve been several times patient(ly) at (4) hospitals.
95 % of the time you wait, pay tickets, try to get the right documents and wait for someone to (re)-type (using only the indexfinger) your anagraphical details (already electronically registered).
5 % of the time a healthcare professional is actually seeing you. That time is again divided into
20% waiting for the doctor to read your documentation and check that you paid the ticket etc.
10% the actual examination/intervention
60% waiting for the DOCTOR to TYPE (with maybe 2 index fingers) your diagnosis/report in the secret language: docterish
10% where (s)he explain/discuss with you.
0.5% (10%*5%) of the time you feel some human treatment!!!
99.5% (100%-0.5%) you are just frustrated waiting for your final hour.
- I wonder: Before computers the doctors had a secretary doing paperwork and the doctor used his expertice 100% to speak and treat the patient. Who remembers if this is true?
- claim: doctors are equally frustrated because they are not typists or bureaucrats and wants to do what they are trained to do. Cure
- I accuse: Technocrats that have made healthcare more ‘efficient’ by buggy information technology. Legislators by substituting common sense and the hippocratic oath with rules, disclaimers, useless consent forms, lawsuits and barriers between professionals.
US ALL for electing the people continuing this process of alienation of the patient and healthcare providers.
- I support: incubating open care initiatives