I have to add that computers (or rather the consolidation of software between hospitals within the same corporation) have actually been destroying health care as much or more than doctors. Each hospital has it's own workflow so the same software that works for one hospital won't work for another, yet they're all forced to relearn their jobs because they all have to use the same software. Which means you could go in for labs, have them not realize that you need blood tests too, not realize whether you're supposed to have an I.V. for a scan (can't remember which one it is—it's the giant spinning donut one) and have you sit with an I.V. needle in your arm not connected to anything just to have them tell you later that the I.V. wasn't necessary and they were just guessing because they didn't have the information available...and this nurse, although probably not the brightest crayon in the box, was actually trying to HELP people.

You can't blame the programmers either...the corporations that own bunches of hospitals make sure they can't do their job properly. Healthcare reform doesn't help either...because that's the reasoning (I think) for consolidating software. And oh yeah, it saves the corporations money because they don't need as many programmers.

Blame the corporations and their CEO's for the decline in healthcare. So now, even if a doctor/nurse wants to help you they can't because they can't access your records properly because they don't know how to use the new system and/or the software is working correctly yet.

And no doctor is going to reply...they have to turn in their gonads in order to get their licenses to kill...er practice.