A piece of my mind. The cost of technology.

نویسنده

  • Elizabeth Toll
چکیده

NO ONE WAS MORE SURPRISED THAN THE PHYSICIAN HIMself. The drawing was unmistakable. It showed the artist—a 7-year-old girl—on the examining table. Her older sister was seated nearby in a chair, as was her mother, cradling her baby sister. The doctor sat staring at the computer, his back to the patient—and everyone else. All were smiling. The picture was carefully drawn with beautiful colors and details, and you couldn’t miss the message. When he saw the drawing, the physician wrote a caption for it: “The economic stimulus bill has directed $20 billion to health care information technology, largely funding electronic medical record incentives. I wonder how much this technology will really cost?” Why was the physician so surprised? Let me tell you about this guy. He joined our pediatrics residency with the rest of the new interns after a two-year stint as the medical officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, a position he had assumed after a single year of general internship in the navy. During the assignment, he had seen this floating city of more than 2500 through every conceivable medical problem from homesickness to gonorrhea, traumatic amputation, and myocardial infarction. He learned to make decisions as significant as diverting an entire aircraft carrier in order to get a patient to a tertiary-care hospital in Bahrain. When you spend a moment with this young physician, you sense innate kindness, humility, and connection to a larger purpose, be this family, country, patients, or hospital. He also has charisma. Students, colleagues, faculty, parents, and kids of every age connect with him. The enjoyment seems mutual. You find him crouching down to meet his young patients at eye level. Evidence of © 2011 Thomas G. Murphy, MD.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • JAMA

دوره 307 23  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012