No More Doctor Visits?

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • cabinetman
    Gone but not Forgotten RIP
    • Jun 2006
    • 15216
    • So. Florida
    • Delta

    No More Doctor Visits?

    I'll be the first to complain about sitting in my Cardiologists waiting room. Maybe those checkups will be unnecessary. CHECK THIS OUT.
    .
  • Uncle Cracker
    The Full Monte
    • May 2007
    • 7091
    • Sunshine State
    • BT3000

    #2
    Hmmm... Wouldn't want my life depending on this until there was years of successful track record to go along with it... My Doc ain't gettin' rid of me that easily.

    Comment

    • crokett
      The Full Monte
      • Jan 2003
      • 10627
      • Mebane, NC, USA.
      • Ryobi BT3000

      #3
      That has been in computerland for years. It is called PFA - predictive failure analysis.

      But, what Uncle Cracker said.
      David

      The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

      Comment

      • Bruce Cohen
        Veteran Member
        • May 2003
        • 2698
        • Nanuet, NY, USA.
        • BT3100

        #4
        Hey Cab.

        I don't ya gotta worry about this heart stuff, "cause you probably ain't got one.
        "Western civilization didn't make all men equal,
        Samuel Colt did"

        Comment

        • germdoc
          Veteran Member
          • Nov 2003
          • 3567
          • Omaha, NE
          • BT3000--the gray ghost

          #5
          Interesting, but I doubt it would decrease the need for doctors visits. Not to be too cynical about it, but a) doctors don't get paid by patients not seeing them but the other way around, and b) virtually all technological innovations like this that result in more information produce results that require action or interpretation, therefore more doctor visits.

          It's still an interesting idea...
          Jeff


          “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”--Voltaire

          Comment

          • Uncle Cracker
            The Full Monte
            • May 2007
            • 7091
            • Sunshine State
            • BT3000

            #6
            Have to admit it's interesting, the more you think about it. Wouldn't be a trip if you got to work one morning and there was a message in your voicemail from your cardiologist, saying "Our computer says you're going to have an MI later this afternoon... Could you stop by the hospital by about 11am, so that we can head this off?".

            Comment

            • MilDoc

              #7
              Originally posted by Uncle Cracker
              Have to admit it's interesting, the more you think about it. Wouldn't be a trip if you got to work one morning and there was a message in your voicemail from your cardiologist, saying "Our computer says you're going to have an MI later this afternoon... Could you stop by the hospital by about 11am, so that we can head this off?".
              It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't.

              I'm still waiting for a Star Trek "salt shaker' that I can scan you with and know exactly what's wrong and what to do!

              Comment

              • Uncle Cracker
                The Full Monte
                • May 2007
                • 7091
                • Sunshine State
                • BT3000

                #8
                Originally posted by MilDoc
                It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't.

                I'm still waiting for a Star Trek "salt shaker' that I can scan you with and know exactly what's wrong and what to do!
                "Doc says I grew a new kidney!..."

                Comment

                • cabinetman
                  Gone but not Forgotten RIP
                  • Jun 2006
                  • 15216
                  • So. Florida
                  • Delta

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Uncle Cracker
                  "Doc says I grew a new kidney!..."

                  That's a buncha beans!!
                  .

                  http://pro.corbis.com/images/OFI055....E703FB63B03%7D
                  .

                  Comment

                  Working...