Comments on: Internet medicine: The next frontier http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/internet-medicine-next-frontier.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/internet-medicine-next-frontier.html/comment-page-1#comment-79788 Mike Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/internet-medicine-the-next-frontier.html#comment-79788 Sounds great to me. And if the patient dies, the family can sue the computer. Awesome! Sounds great to me. And if the patient dies, the family can sue the computer. Awesome!

]]> By: Dr. Samson Isberg http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/internet-medicine-next-frontier.html/comment-page-1#comment-79781 Dr. Samson Isberg Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/internet-medicine-the-next-frontier.html#comment-79781 Actually, this professor is a professor of Marketing, employed at a Business Academy.<br/><br/>Some of the most spectacular advances within the field of medicine have been made by people without any medical licence at all - Madame Curie, Wilhelm Röntgen, Louis Pasteur etc. <br/><br/>This, however, will not be one of them. It is clear to me that the learned Professor hasn't grasped what patients seeing the doctor really wants. He obviously believes that they are all sick, injured or diseased, and that all they wish for is a cure.<br/><br/>How deceived can a professor be when he steps out of his own limited field. Actually, this professor is a professor of Marketing, employed at a Business Academy.

Some of the most spectacular advances within the field of medicine have been made by people without any medical licence at all – Madame Curie, Wilhelm Röntgen, Louis Pasteur etc.

This, however, will not be one of them. It is clear to me that the learned Professor hasn’t grasped what patients seeing the doctor really wants. He obviously believes that they are all sick, injured or diseased, and that all they wish for is a cure.

How deceived can a professor be when he steps out of his own limited field.

]]> By: Rian http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/internet-medicine-next-frontier.html/comment-page-1#comment-79780 Rian Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/internet-medicine-the-next-frontier.html#comment-79780 This strikes me as being a phenomenally Bad Idea. What's next, input your diagnosis into the box and a script is auto-sent to the pharmacy based on some EBM-type algorithm?<br/><br/>Ack.<br/><br/>There're enough Internet hypochondriacs in the world. We don't need to facilitate that sort of behavior any more. Why not just make everything short of a CV controlled substance available OTC? :rolleyes: This strikes me as being a phenomenally Bad Idea. What’s next, input your diagnosis into the box and a script is auto-sent to the pharmacy based on some EBM-type algorithm?

Ack.

There’re enough Internet hypochondriacs in the world. We don’t need to facilitate that sort of behavior any more. Why not just make everything short of a CV controlled substance available OTC? :rolleyes:

]]> By: MedFriendly http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/internet-medicine-next-frontier.html/comment-page-1#comment-79778 MedFriendly Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/internet-medicine-the-next-frontier.html#comment-79778 I don't buy that this will work for one minute. I often have patients tell me they know they have a certian diagnosis when I know that they don't. Not only that, but the areas hardest hit with long waiting lists are those where there are many poor people. Poor people are less educated and often don't have computer access to begin with. The naswer is to solve our medical crisis and not make patients have to diagnose themselves.<br/><br/>Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D. <br/>Founder and Webmaster of <a HREF="http://www.medfriendly.com" REL="nofollow">MedFriendly.com</a> and <a HREF="http://www.medfriendly.com/blog.html" REL="nofollow">The MedFriendly blog</a>. I don’t buy that this will work for one minute. I often have patients tell me they know they have a certian diagnosis when I know that they don’t. Not only that, but the areas hardest hit with long waiting lists are those where there are many poor people. Poor people are less educated and often don’t have computer access to begin with. The naswer is to solve our medical crisis and not make patients have to diagnose themselves.

Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D.
Founder and Webmaster of MedFriendly.com and The MedFriendly blog.

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