[Magdalen] health care...

[ME Michaud]

I am remembering a friend who was fiercely loyal to her doctor, an elderly
courtly practitoner who clearly wasn't up to date on his CEs. She developed
diabetes in her late seventies and he told her to go to the drug store to
get some test strips. She dutifully went, and the pharmacist regarded her
with shocked expression.
"we haven't stocked those in twenty years!"

In team practice, everybody's up to date on their CEs ... or else. And they
can count on excellent office support, without the bother of hiring,
training, firing, a huge task for physicians in private practice. (In some
ways medical schools, like seminaries, do not train for the crappy but very
real demands of the job).

For the most part I see nurses. I actually think nurses are better at
quick evaluation than physicians are, and they're alot easier to work with,
too. But there are always physicians roaming around for consult (my dental
practice runs in much the same way).
-M

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> This side of the pond that is normal.  We are registered with a particular
> doctor but can see any of the team.  This reduces the pressure on the
> individual doctor because they can actually get some time off.  The team
> also offers a degree of peer supervision.  The wisdom of that, and what led
> to more pressure on government to do away with single doctor practices, was
> seen in the case of Harold Shipman who is believed to have killed about 250
> of his patients.
>
>