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Thanks! It is very helpful. These are great points. I actually tell my patients that every supplement or vitamin should be thought of as a medication. I had wri

Thanks! It is very helpful. These are great points. I actually tell my patients that every supplement or vitamin should be thought of as a medication. I had written "should be thought of" in the article and then just switched to "is a medication" to make the sentence simpler. It probably changed the meaning too much. It's been very interesting to read the responses on here, and I appreciate the feedback.

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tinco 6y ago
What do you think of the idea that doctors don't follow up on their patients? I have a friend who is a physician that can not practice because of medical reasons, he is now experimenting with a business where he reviews peoples medical dossiers to check whether their doctors have missed anything that could be important. He's got crazy stories of doctors skimming dossiers because of time constraints. A poignant case he described was where a doctor did not notice his patient was 100kg lighter than the last time she visited. How do you miss you've got only a third of the patient you had before he exclaimed when he told me this story.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  When I worked at Aflac, there was a quadruplegic former surgeon who came in like once a week and reviewed records for the really hard things that we, in claims, were having trouble figuring out. Because he was quadruplegic, someone brought him upstairs on the elevator and you had to print your entire claim out and someone turned pages for him. He only read it and made a determination. I got to see it firsthand once when one of my claims went to him. I run a google group called Health Techies and your physician friend is welcome to join, if he is interested. It doesn't see much activity, but, you know, sometimes you get enough people and conversation breaks out, at long last. Or new people show up, have questions, and then conversation happens. Voila!
- pmiller2 6y ago
  Huh. So, it sounds like your friend is essentially trying to be House, MD, but, hopefully without the surly attitude, the Vicodin addiction, and a tendency to nearly kill patients at least 3 times an hour.

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tinco 6y ago

What do you think of the idea that doctors don't follow up on their patients? I have a friend who is a physician that can not practice because of medical reasons, he is now experimenting with a business where he reviews peoples medical dossiers to check whether their doctors have missed anything that could be important. He's got crazy stories of doctors skimming dossiers because of time constraints. A poignant case he described was where a doctor did not notice his patient was 100kg lighter than the last time she visited. How do you miss you've got only a third of the patient you had before he exclaimed when he told me this story.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
When I worked at Aflac, there was a quadruplegic former surgeon who came in like once a week and reviewed records for the really hard things that we, in claims, were having trouble figuring out. Because he was quadruplegic, someone brought him upstairs on the elevator and you had to print your entire claim out and someone turned pages for him. He only read it and made a determination. I got to see it firsthand once when one of my claims went to him. I run a google group called Health Techies and your physician friend is welcome to join, if he is interested. It doesn't see much activity, but, you know, sometimes you get enough people and conversation breaks out, at long last. Or new people show up, have questions, and then conversation happens. Voila!
pmiller2 6y ago
Huh. So, it sounds like your friend is essentially trying to be House, MD, but, hopefully without the surly attitude, the Vicodin addiction, and a tendency to nearly kill patients at least 3 times an hour.