Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
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Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
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Harkness recognized that the clinic was catering to the wrong side of the patient interaction. Rather than being designed for the patient’s convenience and betterment, it had been designed with the provider in mind. Our veterans were spending their days going from program to program . . . We were asking people struggling with mental illness to come
... See moreAs a result of so many changes, compassionate care is all too often being replaced by institutional care characterized by electronic medical records (EMRs), coding, and algorithms.
On the other hand, very often we don’t know for a long time, if ever, what the doctor did for us. In other words, the market is testing whether or not the doctor can give us hope and the feeling of having been taken care of, not whether the doctor really makes us healthier. Feeling more or less hopeful is a pretty inaccurate test. Hope is even supp
... See moreNixon. In the course of their growth, managed care organizations have become focused on reducing health service use (and attendant costs) rather than on managing health,