Personal Narrative: An Interview With Medical Patients

For my assignment, I got to interview Dr. Rolf D. Morstead, MD, FAAPMR on February 17, 2018. He obtained his degree at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and is in practice for more than twenty years. He is board certified in both Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. Dr. Morstead currently works as an independent practitioner for eighteen years in Monroe, LA. He is also affiliated with St. Francis Medical Center and Glenwood Regional Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Morstead is also a Medical Director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Medical Director of Skilled Nursing Facility, Chief of Staff, Chief Medical Officer, and Vice President of Medical Affairs all at St. Francis Medical Center (R. Morstead, personal communication, February 17, 2018). Dr. Morstead …show more content…
He uses his phone to text other physicians and nurses especially when on call. Whenever he interacts with patients, he needs to be able to see prior information from electronic medical records. Plus, Dr. Morstead documents daily patient interactions in the electronic medical records. In addition, almost all information and tests in the hospital are obtained with some form of technological devices. These devices are more and more integrated with each other to self-populate documents and medical records. There are several benefits of technology. It can have a large storage size allowing huge amounts of data collection. Rapid access to the data collection is key to time efficiency especially when seeing many patients. Technology can also allow easy transmission between different hospitals and offices. With benefits, there are also difficulties or challenges with technology. Humans are at the mercy of the computer; once it is down, there are no access to the information needed. While the computers can collect huge amounts of data, it can also collect huge