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Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records
Lucas123 writes "While electronic medical records (EMR) may contain your health information, most physicians think you should only be able to add information to them, not get access to all of the contents. A survey released this week of 3,700 physicians in eight countries found that only 31% of them believe patients should have full access to their medical record; 65% believe patients should have only limited access. Four percent said patients should have no access at all. The findings were consistent among doctors surveyed in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States."
The median *starting* salary for the lowest paid doctors is $132,500 (pediatrician). Since the linked article is the WSJ, the obvious conclusion they come to is that they should be paid *more*. I want people working in this profession because they want to be doctors, not because they want to be rich. Our healthcare costs are completely out of control, and doctor's salaries are one the main reasons. Pharmaceutical prices are the other. Inefficient private insurance is the third.
When the healthcare industry cleans it's own house and stops raping the public then maybe I'll start listening to what they have to say. Until then, I assume anything that comes out of their mouths is nothing but more posturing by narcissistic greedy assholes.
Doctors prescribe Oxycontin like candy. That's because it is pushed hard by Big Pharma.
An employee of mine was prescribed it for recovery from surgery (not a bad reason), but wasn't told anything at all about its narcotic or addictive properties.
When he told me what he was on, I said "Oh, hillbilly heroin!" I then told him about it, and he went white.
There's a hell of a lot of that in medicine, these days.
A couple of years ago, there was a notorious pharmacy robbery in New York, where the guy executed four people in order to get Vicodin and Oxycontin for himself and his wife.
I have been in Recovery for over 30 years. I have been told, many times, by folks in medicine, to NEVER tell the doctor that I'm an addict, as it goes on your record, and they treat you like dirt, even if you have been drug-free longer than they have been alive.