"Our government's idea of GOOD healthcare
is part of the plan to gain control of our
nations healthcare and the medical profession"
Our government-controlled healthcare program, in the name of cutting medical care costs, has awakened a monster within every practicing physician's soul.
This is a monster that has been unleashed to feed on the motivation and passion of every
physician's investigative mind compromising not only the quality of medical care delivered, but
also the intensity of their diagnostic abilities pounded into their heads while in medical school.
I see the problem every time my wife or I see a doctor for medical issues. What I see being done is a great disregard for good physical examination, barely being examined close enough to catch any unexpected sign or symptom that could lead to a different diagnosis completely.
For example, my wife had developed a chronic dry cough which persisted for months, sometimes interfering with sleep and daily activities. I listened to her lung fields but heard no rales or other pathologic signs. Finally took her to the ER when her breathing became difficult, and no
cause found for it.
Not only did she wait an hour to be seen by a doctor, but had to urge the doctor to listen to her chest and lungs which took maybe 20 seconds through her clothing. No lab was done. His diagnosis was "just a virus that is going around".
So I asked him if the virus he was talking about was one that lasted 6 months or more without improvement. I never heard about a virus like that in my medical career. He never even considered a differential diagnosis of lung cancer in a 77 year old, allergy to something, or something related to a secondary mycoplasma infection I read about.
They knew I was a physician and hadn't brought her to the ER for a unessential or dumb medical reason--this was a significant medical problem and worsening and with no diagnostic work done to corner a tentative real diagnosis. I finally told the ER manager that if he missed a serious problem by not ordering a chest x-ray that night that they would have a malpractice suit to contend with.
I was disgusted. The physician never recommended that she see an other specialist.
The Internist she saw soon after--said almost exactly the same thing. For the medical care in an HMO I expected such poor care, like my three years at Kaiser Permanente where I witnesses a lot of that. It is obvious, at least to physicians who were trained 50 years ago, that the pressure to do less, spend less, and save money for the HMO was a direct influence on what doctors are coerced into doing for patients today. It sickens me what I'm seeing. I can give you about 20 more good examples of this, but you probably already see what I see, as well, if you are reading this article.
Technology has been substituted for physical exams and diagnosis. And it further substitutes for the medical school education that was packed into the physicians mind and which was a useless agenda.
Speed of exam and diagnosis has become the way to practice medicine and likely will increase the medical malpractice plaintiff attorney's income. After all, who wants to kill the cash-cow for these medical malpractice attorneys which will not be limited by law. Primarily because congress members are predominantly attorneys. A law to place a cap on jury verdicts would greatly limit the fear of malpractice issues for physicians.
The unexplainable fact that physicians continue to tolerate the abuses our government and our medical schools and AAMC, which are increasingly responsible for creating this abuse, will continue.
Can you see where this is headed?
----Professional Probe----
"It's exactly what I felt like saying to
that ER medical doctor that evening for
his sluffing off a proper diagnosis investigation
of my wife's medical symptoms. But as a
professional it was necessary to keep my cool."
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