Monday, November 28, 2011

technology & health care

I love how all your medical questions can be answered online now. Can't tell whether it's a flu or cold? Go to webMD and look up your symtoms.

This is all fine and dandy when I am lazy at home and getting sick. However, when I go to my doctor office. My doctor would mainly sit on her computer desk and type random stuff on her keyboard as I talk about my problems. She would then reads off and tell me my diagnostics.

Afterward, she proceeded to order my prescription over the internet and I get to pick up my medicine an hour afterward. Yep, no more squinting while trying to read your doctor's ugly handwriting for what he is prescribing for you.

This is strange to me. What is the different between having an actual doctor or simply going to a medical website?

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