On 12/11/2018 1:17 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > The vast majority of patients are unable to reliably convey diagnoses, > whether they corpus mentus or not. They can usually converse about their > symptoms but patients with reliable memory of explicit diagnoses are > atypical. > > This may not apply equally young educated middle class people. Do you > serious expect a 70 year old with multiple comorbidities who has just had a > fall to remember all their conditions and allergies? "I have a heart > condition" is a help, but the actual heart condition out of a couple of > hundred is more useful. It may rule out therapies that are otherwise the > best option. cf something we hear in IT: "There's something wrong with my > computer."
Totally agree. The issue is that MyHR doesn't help in this situation. Access to the patient's real medical records (which is becoming more frequent and at a much lower cost and risk) is what would be better, not some badly curated mess. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link