AMA 06: Why Your Doctor Won't Look You In The Eye

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🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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To my patients: I wasn't planning on getting so angry, but here's why we've been forced to go from connecting...to clicking. Join the movement to rehumanize medicine: zdoggmd.com/list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:02.0	Skim the patient.
0:04.8	Yeah.
0:14.8	Okay, guys, have you ever wondered what's changed in medicine
0:18.0	that now you go to the doctor and they don't look you in the eye?
0:22.5	Instead, they're looking at a computer screen.
0:24.9	They're back maybe to you.
0:26.5	You're sitting there up on that exam table
0:28.4	with in a paper thin gown with your butt hanging out feeling vulnerable,
0:32.0	thinking, you know, this person doesn't care about me
0:35.9	because they're staring at a computer asking me questions and clicking boxes.
0:39.9	What happened to medicine?
0:42.4	We went into it, doctors, nurses, everybody who takes care of patients on the front line
0:46.1	to connect with other human beings.
0:48.1	And yet now, that seems to be gone.
0:51.1	We can't even look at our patients in their most vulnerable moments.
0:54.7	The gift they give us is being vulnerable with us
0:57.7	and we're not able to be there for them.
0:59.7	Why? The electronic medical record.
1:04.2	And I will not call it an EHR electronic health record
1:07.4	because there is nothing about health in this thing.
1:11.0	Patients, you guys need to understand how this has destroyed medicine.
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