SDSue
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Wow. I’m disappointed to hear this, but it doesn’t surprise me. It sounds like mainstream medicine - sometimes I think the main reason doctors take a history is to listen for key words that justify and document the need to run expensive tests for which they can bill.Instead of a system organized around how best to help people, it is organized around "for what services can we bill Medicaid and Medicare?"
The higher level thinking skills required to be a good diagnostician or social services provider have been replaced by keypads and artificial intelligence. Welcome to the brave new world.
In my years of illness, I’ve been forced to "look under the hoods" of medicine, law, disability, medicare, and more. What I’ve seen has made me rather cynical.