That Old-Time Medicine. / Nancy Shute.
by Shute, Nancy; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 9Health. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Communication in medicine | Health care reform | Medical care | Physician and patientDDC classification: 050 Summary: "There's a lot to dislike about going to the doctor these days. It starts with the phone call and plodding through the impersonal 'push one, push two' of the automated answering system. Then the waiting starts...waiting weeks for an appointment, waiting in the waiting room, waiting in the examining room, wrapped in a paper gown and reading a four-year-old magazine." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article explains why some doctors are returning to the old-fashioned type of medicine in which patients are treated more personally.
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Originally Published: That Old-Time Medicine, April 22, 2002; pp. 54+.
"There's a lot to dislike about going to the doctor these days. It starts with the phone call and plodding through the impersonal 'push one, push two' of the automated answering system. Then the waiting starts...waiting weeks for an appointment, waiting in the waiting room, waiting in the examining room, wrapped in a paper gown and reading a four-year-old magazine." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article explains why some doctors are returning to the old-fashioned type of medicine in which patients are treated more personally.
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