| My Primary Care Physician is unable to speak coherent sentences. I'm half-joking, of course. The guy is top-rated, elected head of the state association. He's widely-regarded as a combination of both brilliant with diagnostics and good with people. He just can't complete a sentence when we meet. Why? Because he's got some pad he carries around that takes up all of his attention span. He comes into the room, sits down -- and there's this struggle for his attention that I watch play out. It usually involves a lot of verbal grunts. "So we've got this .... er.. .. and it looks .. hmmmm. .... So this is...." This could go on for a bit. Eventually we get to either a statement or a question. Frankly I'd think the guy was having some sort of mental issues if it weren't for the facts that 1) he used to be fine before they all started carrying around pads, and 2) he's fine outside the clinic. I really hope that the tech community has helped make healthcare better. It's certainly had an impact. |