How well do you really know what is going on after your Doctor has walked out your room?
Do you ever wonder if technology is going to take over? How about if what you are being told is it even true? In the article “The Stranger Reading Your X-Ray May Be 8000 Miles Away” it states “The use of teleradiology allows the doctors from all around the world to confer with one another on patient’s scans. However, teleradiology can lead to medical errors, confusion and fraud.” Now a days technology is making a difference in several negative and positive ways. In the Article it talks about how doctors can be several miles away, rooms away, states, or even across the world and they could be the ones reading your scans. It also discusses how they are not explaining them very well, they referred to how the doctors communicate as a game of telephone. I would see that as a negative impact because they are not one hundred percent sure of what is actually being discussed. Some of the information that could be life or death may be left out by one the doctors dealing with your case. These doctors are communicating with other doctors and not all the …show more content…
Gives examples of different cases and the doctors overview on what they knew and what they actually did to help the patient. In a few of the cases I read through-out the article it seemed like some of the patients could have been saved. For example the lady with the Hemorrhage could have been saved. The radiologist seemed to not be direct with each other and then it impacted the lady. It has impacted the lady because she was not informed of the several different things they thought it could have been. It actually ended up causing her additional trips to the ER trying to figure out what was going wrong. I think this can be related back to the first paragraph where I was discussing how they referred to how the doctors were communicating with each other as a game of
Do you ever wonder if technology is going to take over? How about if what you are being told is it even true? In the article “The Stranger Reading Your X-Ray May Be 8000 Miles Away” it states “The use of teleradiology allows the doctors from all around the world to confer with one another on patient’s scans. However, teleradiology can lead to medical errors, confusion and fraud.” Now a days technology is making a difference in several negative and positive ways. In the Article it talks about how doctors can be several miles away, rooms away, states, or even across the world and they could be the ones reading your scans. It also discusses how they are not explaining them very well, they referred to how the doctors communicate as a game of telephone. I would see that as a negative impact because they are not one hundred percent sure of what is actually being discussed. Some of the information that could be life or death may be left out by one the doctors dealing with your case. These doctors are communicating with other doctors and not all the …show more content…
Gives examples of different cases and the doctors overview on what they knew and what they actually did to help the patient. In a few of the cases I read through-out the article it seemed like some of the patients could have been saved. For example the lady with the Hemorrhage could have been saved. The radiologist seemed to not be direct with each other and then it impacted the lady. It has impacted the lady because she was not informed of the several different things they thought it could have been. It actually ended up causing her additional trips to the ER trying to figure out what was going wrong. I think this can be related back to the first paragraph where I was discussing how they referred to how the doctors were communicating with each other as a game of