On vrijdag 12 juli 1996 19:03, Peter Glover[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>I found the mailings in response to the chaperone dilema very
>interesting.When I posted the original mail I also sent a copy to
>Family-L, the USA primary care mailing list.There was quite a response
>with a wide range of views.Some of the doctors will hardly examine at
>all without a chaperone,some do sometimes and don't when they think the
>patient won't mind and a few had interesting solutions.Among these was a
>doctor who had a notice up saying that if a patient wanted a chaperone
>they should bring their own.Another writer, always using a
>chaperone,went even further and recorded in his notes that the
>examination had been conducted in the presence of viz..,as one writer
>said,they're very litigation concious over there!
> Best wishes,
> Peter Glover
> Rayleigh
> Essex
>--
>Peter Glover
>
The best joke on the matter was on the American list.
By Barry Saver, MD, from Seattle, in an email dd.16 june 1996.
I quote:
I can think of a couple of possibilities:
3) Button-sized CCD cameras incorporated into all white coats, sending
moderate resolution, B&W, 5-10 frames/second video, plus audio, to an
archival storage system (with an infrared transmitter/receiver system and
data encryptation with the "Clipper" chip, most likely). When DVD hits
and recorders become affordable, probably a whole day's visits could be
recorded on 1 disc, with data compression. White coats could be modified
"chastity belts" that only someone else could release the provider from at
the end of the day. Think what a boon to research on patient-physician
interactions all the available data would be! This could be the initial
market driving the development of technology making possible the total
recording of everyone's lives, birth to death...
Barry
Dik Kruyt, MD
Netherlands
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