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To: gg cox who wrote (138887)2/3/2018 3:04:43 PM
From: Elroy Jetson   of 218501
 
It's interesting seeing these changes in delivering medical care over the past ten years. We've switched to a Doctor who at the age of 42 is a couple of decades younger than I rather than my age. Something which was inevitable at some point.

But although he's much younger he's perhaps far more adverse to technology than my older Doctors. He sensibly wanted my medical history stretching back 30 years but was flummoxed that I could provide him with most of it in an Excel spreadsheet. He's used to reviewing paper records sent from prior Doctors, many of whom have retired. Legally these records are available to him, unless the prior Doctor is dead, but at a huge cost or in an abbreviated inaccurately remembered fashion in talking with me or my prior Doctors.

I've told him repeatedly that when I remember events and the sequence of events differently from my spreadsheets, I'm wrong, because that's the way memory is.

With a combination of some prior paper records and my spreadsheet he became convinced I transcribed the data correctly but most of delivering 30 years of information to him in a form which tells him something useful is still up to me because it's my system and Excel is second nature to me.

A couple of months ago he got fed up with the service which allowed him to prescribe medications on a tablet and relay them to the pharmacy because: it required him to more of the clerical work the pharmacist used to do and secondly because he has to pay a subscription fee each month for the "service".

The cost of this the electronic pharmaceutical system and electronic records is paid for Doctors who work for a larger institution and they don't have the choice to opt out of it. He still has a choice so he's gone retro - but that will change.
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