mccThere are a lot of things I hate about how doctors treat you but I think the one that makes me most *mad* is when doctor A refers you to doctor B, and you show up at doctor B, and they ask you about some result or other, and you say "doctor A has that" and they're like "we didn't get a copy"
Anyway this is especially great because almost all doctors have no way of engaging with you other than "get an appointment, wait two months, they see you for 20 minutes" so if that result from the other doctor was actually important that boosts any kind of outcome out by another two month cycle. Hope you weren't having like, an ongoing health problem you needed resolution on or anything.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@mcc so infuriating.
over here it's all centralised into the NHS N3 network, which is a frickin godsend, but even then they do sometimes find a way to mess it up regardless.
most frustrating one I had was being sent to a rheumatology specialist (3 month lead time), be referred for a nonstandard (HLA-B27 antigen presence) blood test, have blood taken, wait a week, then find out they just ran a basic blood panel and not the actual test, so I needed to go around again.
@gsuberland i'm rather confused how it is that OHIP centralizes payment without in any way encouraging centralization of information.
instead of modernizing or streamlining this system, the liberals just want to add "AI"
@mcc so backwards.
funny how centralising the money handling is easy but centralising the patient care information is somehow impossible.
@mcc thing is, even our dentists can electronically transfer patient care records between dental surgeries, including historical x-ray imaging and exam charts and such, and they're not even a direct part of the NHS. if we can still figure that one out, nobody else has an excuse.
Max Barnash@gsuberland @mcc we can’t tho, my GP practice (London) has been lying both to me and to my previous practice in order to not transfer records (for 3 years!), I suspect in part because they appear to _print out, stamp, and poorly rescan_ every piece of documentation that goes into records, including emails. Outlier (I hope!), but this being possible at all is wild to me.