tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post6258229208916980436..comments2024-02-16T19:50:32.317-05:00Comments on Lynda Grace An Hour Away: The Doctor and Her Computer lyndagracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530605081989558341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post-28194119963020680882013-02-27T10:02:38.655-05:002013-02-27T10:02:38.655-05:00I see the computer as a tool-nothing more or less....I see the computer as a tool-nothing more or less. For me the key phrase in your post is , "I have to say I really like my doctor." And that's the bottom line. I spent nine hours at the VA in San Francisco, yesterday, having a cancerous growth removed from my chest. I had more than ten medical personnel, at different times, attending to me, including four doctors. To a person, they treated me and Annie with respect, as though we were family. Annie was allowed to spend the entire time in the operating room with me. It took three hours and seventy-five plus stitches to put me back together again, all under local anesthetic. My experience was enhanced by the awesome bed-side manner, and the humor and humaneness of the whole day. Yes, there was a computer in evidence, but that is because I have been to three different VA clinics in the past 27 days, for three different reasons. The computer is a handy tool to have available, for different sites to keep track of my comings and goings. Thanks for the post!Mark O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295762252612104201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post-72062146288479527392013-02-26T22:17:42.761-05:002013-02-26T22:17:42.761-05:00I went to a pre-op appointment yesterday for a joi...I went to a pre-op appointment yesterday for a joint replacement surgery (hand). The young woman called my name, brought me to the examining room (which had a desk and no exam table), and told me to wait while she opened my account on the computer in the room. That's it. No smile, no blood pressure, no nothing. Just open the computer window and leave. Oh, she did say that the nurse practitioner would come in a few minutes. Zip. That's it. Computers take over. I will say that the nurse practitioner, who did look more at the computer screen than she looked at me, was very knowledgeable. Like a computer.....Graciewildehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00142582724233027386noreply@blogger.com