Are We Waiting For Godot?

Ten reasons I feel pessimism about our current healthcare environment (in brief): Process vs Product Computers are just machines.  I repeat, they are just tools.  Health information technology is a shell which houses knowledge and human ability.  It is nothing more .  Electronic medical records may either streamline our thought processes or make them more cluttered.  They will not, however, lead to better or more perfect care.  They haven't yet, and they won't in the future. And they are prone to be adulterated by commercial intentions.  Looking for an answer to our complex healthcare problems here is like waiting for Godot.  You can wait and wait, but no one is coming. Role Confusion Physicians, nurses, and therapists are some of the most educated, expensive cogs in the healthcare machine.  Forcing them to become secretaries, scribes, and box checkers is both inefficient and redundant.  Furthermore, it doesn't take a physician to make sure a patient has had a flu shot, colonoscopy, or pap smear.  These are roles for nonclinical, low payed employees.  Take them of the clinicians plate.  Let doctors be doctors, nurses be nurses, and physical (and occupational) therapists do what they are trained to do. Call It Courage Until physicians have the courage to practice sound medicine and are willing to deny inappropriate antibiotics, narcotics and futile care, we are lost.  Until politicians are willing to f...
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