The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line

The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line

“Kathleen Blake, AMA’s vice president of healthcare quality, earlier this year cited studies showing that hospital acquisitions of private practices- which doubled from 2012 to 2018- have lead to ‘modestly worse patient experiences and no significant change in readmission or mortality rates.’ Flawed electronic health record systems in hospitals have resulted in deathly medical errors

“Kathleen Blake, AMA’s vice president of healthcare quality, earlier this year cited studies showing that hospital acquisitions of private practices- which doubled from 2012 to 2018- have lead to ‘modestly worse patient experiences and no significant change in readmission or mortality rates.’ Flawed electronic health record systems in hospitals have resulted in deathly medical errors and millions in settlements…In a 2018 survey by the Physician’s Foundation, only 13% of doctors agreed that ‘hospital employment of physicians is likely to enhance quality of care and decrease cost… the replacement of the small doctors office with large-scale facilities hasn’t made medicine cheaper or access to it easier. It threatens to remove a core advantage of the small, privately owned practice: the sense of personal, immediate responsibility between physician and patient.” -Devorah Goldman, WSJ

WSJ, 12/29/21

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