Sounds familiar. I had a friend that was admitted through the emergency room - brought in by ambulance. I went and saw him in the ER about an hour after he arrived. I figured out pretty quick he had a gastric ulcer. But, it took them three days to finally get him diagnosed and fixed. Meanwhile, he stayed in the ER until they wheeled him in to do the scope. Then he was admitted after they had their diagnosis and he was patched up. The hospital bill was huge. I get the full on triage thing. Attorneys and a few bad apples in the doctor barrel has created the need to practice defensive medicine that is now to the extreme and total nonsense - not to mention expensive.

Once you go in, and it is a closed hospital system, which most hospitals are these days, a hospitalist or intensivist takes over your case. Sounds good and efficient on paper, but we are seeing the the flaws and dangers of this system of patient care management on full display during this pandemic. A patient's family or their own PCP has virtually no input. People do not read those damn intake forms very well and essentially sign their rights away and give the hospital permission to do all kinds of stuff.

I have always had issues when they went to digital signatures. Without hard copies of anything how does a person know what the hell they are signing. My advice to everyone is to have notarized copies of medical power of attorney forms on hand if there is any thought that a family member will be hospitalized. And make them give you a copy of what you are signing. They don't like it much, but I make them give me a hard copy to sign of the intake forms. They will try to give someone grief over it and say it can't be done blah, blah, blah. But I keep insisting. I also don't agree to hand my information over to third party that helps to feed this digital medical beast. It may not win the war, but at least I am fighting back my own way. For the sake of what sounds like convenience, patients every day give away their rights to medical privacy. We must stop and think about what we are doing. I am also afraid that by the time everyone figures out that this system they have built does not work, there won't be enough of us old farts left that actually know what it was like to actually practice using our experience and skills instead of a computer algorithm.

Sounds familiar. I had a friend that was admitted through the emergency room - brought in by ambulance. I went and saw him in the ER about an hour after he was brought in. I figured out pretty quick he had a gastric ulcer. But, it took them three days to finally get him diagnosed and fixed. Meanwhile, he stayed in the ER until they wheeled him in to do the scope. Then he was admitted after they had their diagnosis and he was patched up. The hospital bill was huge. I get the full on triage thing. Attorneys and a few bad apples in the doctor barrel has created the need to practice defensive medicine that is now to the extreme and total nonsense - not to mention expensive.

Once you go in, and it is a closed hospital system, which most hospitals are these days, a hospitalist or intensivist takes over your case. Sounds good and efficient on paper, but we are seeing the the flaws and dangers of this system of patient care management on full display during this pandemic. A patient's family or their own PCP has virtually no input. People do not read those damn intake forms very well and essentially sign their rights away and give the hospital permission to do all kinds of stuff.

I have always had issues when they went to digital signatures. Without hard copies of anything how does a person know what the hell they are signing. My advice to everyone is to have notarized copies of medical power of attorney forms on hand if there is any thought that a family member will be hospitalized. And make them give you a copy of what you are signing. They don't like it much, but I make them give me a hard copy to sign of the intake forms. They will try to give someone grief over it and say it can't be done blah, blah, blah. But I keep insisting. I also don't agree to hand my information over to third party that helps to feed this digital medical beast. It may not win the war, but at least I am fighting back my own way. For the sake of what sounds like convenience, patients every day give away their rights to medical privacy. We must stop and think about what we are doing. I am also afraid that by the time everyone figures out that this system they have built does not work, there won't be enough of us old farts left that actually know what it was like to actually practice using our experience and skills instead of a computer algorithm.

Sounds familiar. I had a friend that was admitted through the emergency room - brought in by ambulance. I went and saw him in the ER about an hour after he was brought in. I figured out pretty quick he had a gastric ulcer. But, it took them three days to finally get him diagnosed and fixed. Meanwhile, he stayed in the ER until they wheeled him in to do the scope. Then he was admitted after they had their diagnosis and he was patched up. The hospital bill was huge. I get the full on triage thing. Attorneys and a few bad apples in the doctor barrel has created the need to practice defensive medicine that is now to the extreme and total nonsense - not to mention expensive.

Once you go in, and it is a closed hospital system, which most hospitals are these days, a hospitalist or intensivist takes over your case. Sounds good and efficient on paper, but we are seeing the the flaws and dangers of this system of patient care management on full display during this pandemic. A patient's family or their own PCP has virtually no input. People do not read those damn intake forms very well and essentially sign their rights away and give the hospital permission to do all kinds of stuff.

I have always had issues when they went to digital signatures. Without hard copies of anything how does a person know what the hell they are signing. My advice to everyone is to have notarized copies of medical power of attorney forms on hand if there is any thought that a family member will be hospitalized. And make them give you a copy of what you are signing. They don't like it much, but I make them give me a hard copy to sign of the intake forms. They will try to give someone grief over it and say it can't be done blah, blah, blah. But I keep insisting. I also don't agree to hand my information over to third party that helps to feed this digital medical beast. It may not win the war, but at least I am fighting back my own way. For the sake of what sounds like convenience, patients every day give away their rights to medical privacy. We must stop and think about what we are doing. I am also afraid that by the time everyone figures out that this system they have built does not work, there won't be enough of us old farts left that actually know what it was like to actually practice using our experience and skills.

Sounds familiar. I had a friend that was admitted through the emergency room - brought in by ambulance. I went and saw him in the ER about an hour after he was brought in. I figured out pretty quick he had a gastric ulcer. But, it took them three days to finally get him diagnosed and fixed. Meanwhile, he stayed in the ER until they wheeled him in to do the scope. Then he was admitted after they had their diagnosis and he was patched up. The hospital bill was huge. I get the full on triage thing. Attorneys and a few bad apples in the doctor barrel has created the need to practice defensive medicine that is now to the extreme and total nonsense - not to mention expensive.

Once you go in, and it is a closed hospital system, which most hospitals are these days, a hospitalist or intensivist takes over your case. Sounds good and efficient on paper, but we are seeing the the flaws and dangers of this system of patient care management on full display during this pandemic. A patient's family or their own PCP has virtually no input. People do not read those damn intake forms very well and essentially sign their rights away and give the hospital permission to do all kinds of stuff.

I have always had issues when they went to digital signatures. Without hard copies of anything how does a person know what the hell they are signing. My advice to everyone is to have notarized copies of medical power of attorney forms on hand if there is any thought that a family member will be hospitalized. And make them give you a copy of what you are signing. They don't like it much, but I make them give me a hard copy to sign of the intake forms. They will try to give someone grief over it and say it can't be done blah, blah, blah. But I keep insisting. I also don't agree to hand my information over to third party that helps to feed this digital medical beast. It may not win the war, but at least I am fighting back my own way. For the sake of what sounds like convenience, patients every day give away their rights to medical privacy. We must stop and think about what we are doing. I am also afraid that by the time everyone figures out that this system they have built does not work, there won't be enough of us old farts left that actually know what it was like to actually practice.