MEDICATION DIAGNOSIS
So, I wanted to find House, MD (the king of diagnostic doctors on TV) in my local area. I do research online to discover that there is no diagnostic specialty. Although this seems ridiculous, I continue. My search leads me to find that most doctors believe they are diagnosticians. And they are, up to a point. Most doctors will take a history, state that you have a cold or bruise or pain or worse, and refer you to a local specialist in the region / system of your body that is affected.
This referral to specialists is not about finding a doctor with diagnostic capabilities. Only that you are being directed to someone else whose credentials you do not have. Shouldn’t every doctor have a diagnostic qualification, if the medical system doesn’t include this as a specialty? How about a score on a scale of 1 to 10 for the diagnostic skill set level? A peer-rated system would work well, along with a customer-rated system. Deepening, deducing, concluding, and having the ability to integrate and extract vast knowledge in infection, degeneration, heredity, mental and environmental health requires special skill. So why not have a separate specialization and definitive certification in Diagnostic Medicine? If we wait a few years, for political correctness, Internal Medicine will probably be called Diagnostic Medicine with no changes to the requirements.
THE DOCTOR IT IS IN THE PATIENT’S EMPLOYMENT
In this quest, we must begin by putting the roles in perspective. WE, THE PATIENTS, are the employer, hiring the doctor. Unfortunately, the demand for diagnostic skills and competence outweighs the supply. So, we forget our roles, for the most part, and consider ourselves lucky when the employee allows us to hire him. Bottom line: when we need a doctor, our perspective changes and we lose focus.
Although we generally forget it, we, in the role of employer, can monitor, direct and impact the behavior of the doctor, in the role of employee, to some extent. It is true that each doctor offers a service in his own way and has the right to do so. But we have the right to ask questions, extend our service time if we need it, be satisfied that we have been well cared for, and terminate the doctor’s employment if we are not satisfied. Tip: Talk to the doctor and don’t be shy. Doctors like to clarify.
In many cases, although doctors have taken an oath of service, they may feel the need to act pompous and ego-filled. This may be the result of their desire to wear the blood, sweat, tears, and coin they spent to complete medical school on their sleeve. Happens. It is a natural fact when you learn a lot that pride and skill can seep into arrogance. It is rude; Is not always; He’s human and what’s a little insecurity among human life-saving beings? Simply put, physicians are generally not considered YOUR employee or YOUR servant.
Due to the number of cases, the increase in malpractice insurance costs, the “allowable amount” cuts from insurance companies, the increase in illnesses; Doctors generally spend less time with their patients because their list has grown along with expenses. Typical consumers don’t pay for “exclusive” care. The concierge physician setting is a great option, as a result of over-patient or consumer dissatisfaction with doctor appointments of just five minutes. Choosing to pay double or ten times the security fee for a 20, 30 or 60 minute appointment is part of our free enterprise system. Live!
DOCTOR’S CREDENTIALS
Research internists are told that they are the closest thing to a diagnostician. But should we become clients before doing our research or doing our research? Should we pay to interview our employee? Should we buy a service we know nothing about? Shouldn’t we have open online access to a central medical information system, free of charge, where we can find all the credentials on one page, or a spec sheet, like the MSDS, (material safety data sheet) for the manufacturing?
Let’s go back to my term “doctor.” I have been using this term to refer to anyone who is dedicated to medicine. I am not using the words “anyone who practices medicine” because I do not subscribe to the word “practice” in this usage. I want someone who already has the knowledge, not someone who needs to practice to acquire the knowledge.
Yes, we learn from experience, but doctors should be doing, not practicing, if I have a choice. I’m the first to say that you can get guru care from someone with less or different training than the doctor who got the best grades or went to the best medical school. The truth is that training has a great impact on the student, which means that someone with a less formal education but with passion and a brilliant teacher, can result in a better trained doctor than the first class student without passion who memorizes, as long as the exams are passed and a skill test is administered.
So why are these credentials left to our investigation and not listed, as a general rule of thumb? Is it because, at any time, a patient can complain and a doctor would rather have no credentials or reviews than deal with negative reviews?
We should have Full access until the expiration date of the primary medical school certification and the board of all doctors who hang a physical or Internet tile. Interestingly, this data is NOT commonly offered. Is it fear of judgment? Or is it to create a demand for this information so that service associations, often owned by physicians, can charge for collecting the most up-to-date information?
Should doctor’s information, such as nutrition labels, be mandatory? And what about the diagnostic classification system? I believe in revealing the ingredients as I believe in revealing who is a great diagnostician and what measurement method was used to decide.
A free site that I have used to research hospitals and doctors is www.healthgrades.com. Regardless of the service you use, you need to make sure that the doctor you are seeing cannot afford to pay for nice and positive comments to be placed in the comment section.
DIAGNOSTIC CONCLUSION
Finding a diagnostician is not easy. We have briefly addressed the concepts of credentials, qualifications, medical schools, research. These issues are prerequisites for search. It is not enough to put a suffix after your name without crediting your suffix. If that, we could all emulate Frank AbagnaIe, Jr., who posed as a doctor (whose life was played by Leo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can).
In the next article, we will analyze the common traits of a diagnostician and see how they exist in a specialty that does not exist, Diagnostic Medicine.