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They are too busy with the laptop to have much attention left for patients. I’m a nurse practitioner, and can confirm this: I spend at least half of my time tapping away at the computer, checking boxes, and completing often-redundant forms for insurance and regulatory compliance and whatnot. It’s really frustrating, and there’s a lot of room for improvement.

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Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ll also add that I very much appreciate nurse practitioners. I have to go in every 6 months for routine “old man maintenance” checkups, and there’s really no need for me to see a doctor for these types of visits. You’re filling a much-needed role. (And I’m sure you do a lot more than just “old man maintenance” consults, LOL).

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Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s astonishing (and insane) how private health insurance has taken over the entirety of health care at every operational level.

This is a type of insurance that started out decades ago as an unusual perk for executives. They called “major medical”. Nobody thought that much about it. In those days most working people simply could go see a doctor and just pay with cash or check.

Now, their tendrils have wrapped around everything from the lowest-paid pharmacy tech to most expensive surgeon…and everything and everyone in-between.

The board rooms of private health insurance companies have a gigantic dragon by the tail, and they have no damned clue what to do with it.

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