Washington Post:
Doctors and patients alike have lamented that fully booked appointment schedules, the laptop’s intrusion during history-taking, billing pressures and edicts from insurance companies are squeezing kindness out of the exam room. So what exactly do we lose when we lose kindness? It may improve doctor-patient relations and patient satisfaction, but does kindness matter for patient outcomes? Can it lower the risk of hospitalization or death? Can kindness save lives?
It’s remarkable that the question even has to be asked. When I shattered my wrist in a motorcycle accident, I was appalled at how poorly the doctors treated me. I wasn’t a human being – I was just an injury that needed to be fixed. One doctor grabbed my wrist and twisted it so much, I literally punched him in the chest. “It’s broken, you idiot!” He didn’t seem to associate the injured wrist with a person on the other end of it.
i slipped on some ice and fractured my elbow. nurse did something like that to me and i puked on him. i said i was sorry but i wasn’t
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Finally, the difference between your Canadian medicine nd ours here in the US. In America, the same thing would have happened and then your insurance company would deny your claim, and you would have a %500 deductible.
I need practitioners who are good enough judges of character to be able to tell that I’m neither drug-seeking nor hypochondriacal. And who can explain issues without oversimplification.
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