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To: stockman_scott who wrote (102715)	3/21/2007 4:29:51 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 361203

Leslie was sent to several specialists, and before each visit her primary-care doctor informed the consultants that Leslie was under "a lot of stress and seems anxious, and depressed." Male doctors ALWAYS think women are hysterical and they overprescribe antidepressants. A friend of mine - a surgical nurse! was given the same song and dance, although she knew something horrendous was wrong. She ended up in emergency then in critical care - 50/50 chance of survival. Part of the gallbladder she'd had removed two years before still remained and was spewing toxins or something. Anyway, she's fine now.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (102715)	3/21/2007 4:42:49 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361203

Sometimes it pays to listen to RTs and RNs

To: stockman_scott who wrote (102715)	3/21/2007 5:57:57 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 361203

I do not see why diagnoses can't be done by computer just as accurately as by a human. Someone puts a person's symptoms and test results into a computer and it chugs through its database and comes up with some reasonable diagnoses. They can be checked and cross checked by a human but what in the world is so magical about any individual doctor? They can't possibly know every malady especially if it's something they haven't seen before. I think we're getting to the point of having to document every single visit to the doc. Not only will the doc have a chart, now the patient will have to make their own chart and note where the doc failed to listen while he/she was scurrying out the door in order to make his income goals for the month.