CNN: The H&P

[thepoopologist]

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/02/opinion/verghese-doctors-touch/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

I have for some time been collecting the phrases that patients use to complain about us doctors, and it is amazing how often you hear, "(S)he never touched me!" or, ". . . never laid a hand on me!" or "never looked at me" or "never listened" or "was too busy looking at the computer screen." I take these statements as validating my belief that it is important for the physician to listen to the patient and to perform a skilled physical exam and it is more important than ever in this era of technology. Of course, when you take that position, you run the risk of being called a Luddite.

I agree with what he says, in principle. In practice, it appears more physician and/or specialty dependent.

Where I am, medical students in general have more time for this than internists, who juggle a 40 patient census.

But then there are attendings who don't bother to put in the time whether they have 8 patients on the census or 20.

 

[Morsetlis]

Primary care should pay more.

 

[mdeast]

Wow, he totally gave us this same speech in class.