When we think about healthcare services with the prefix "tele," such as telehealth or telepharmacy, we typically associate them with convenience for both patients and providers.
It’s a knee-jerk default discharge phrase. It’s a catchall punt of responsibility and liability. And dear colleagues, we need you to think twice before ever saying it again, says Dr. Adam Stewart.
We are medical anthropologists who have researched social and cultural dimensions of medical education. As teachers, we have worked with thousands of undergraduate pre-meds.
A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.
'We (doctors) are now at risk of not “hearing” our patients’ stories. I am in the process of trialling Mutuo speech recognition. It transcribes the patient-clinician interaction, using machine learning.'
