[Magdalen] Rant

[Marilyn Cepeda]

I do like the patient portals but it is cumbersome if you see several
docs!  The physicians in my family in the private sector do not necessarily
feel computerization is a great think for medicine in the short term. My VA
physician loves it as it is just check off the boxes forget individualize
get anything.

Marilyn

On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I notice the private sector of medicine is now being forced, finally,
> > into electronic records, and they are kicking and screaming all
> > the way
>
> Our current primary physician is now affiliated with Advocate (which
> started with the United Church of Christ, interestingly), so fully
> computerized and with a new modern office near the hospital (Illinois
> Masonic, where my colon has twice been oscopied). All is well there
> with the computerization (I especially like the patient portal, where
> I can sign in and see lab results, pay bills, and so on), but one
> reason we left our previous doctor was that we got tired of sitting
> there while she stared silently at a computer terminal's screen; I
> actually had to interrupt her a couple of times to ask, "Are you
> waiting for me to say or do anything, or am I waiting for you to say
> or do something?" We also couldn't understand her French-Jamaican
> patois, although I'm sure it was lovely (and she is very beautiful).
> We opted for a more tech-savvy physician with high English fluency.
> He's also gay, which isn't essential but is nice. And I sometimes work
> with his HP-employed brother. Small world.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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Marilyn Cepeda