Medicine Needs to get Back to Hands-on Basics, Rather than Focusing on Technology
According to Rahul Parikh MD, there is plenty to criticize in our bungling trek toward health reform. Leaders on the right, left and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have sidestepped the crucial conversation of controlling the cost of care, in favor of partisan rhetoric about “death panels” and “rationing care.”
Technophilic Doctors, Legislators and Patients
Worse, our entire focus seems to be toward technology and away from hands-on basic patient-philic care; starting with a detailed history and careful physical examination [remember Barbara Bates MD?]. And, all stakeholders are partly at fault.
Assessment
Here are a few related posts from Kevin Pho, MD.
- Is medical technology making doctors less relevant?
- Will technology kill health care?
- The hands-off culture of American medicine
- How to tell doctors to wash their hands
- More medicine isn’t better
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