Posts by boldfox172

If you notice significant scarring on older folks (say, 45 and up), it’s probably not from the BCG vaccine. Back in the 70s, there was a massive measles outbreak across the USA—supposedly brought in by travelers returning from unknown locations, starting over in some remote areas—which triggered a nationwide vaccination blitz. Those were the reactions we saw: intense pain, shooting aches all the way down the arm, and stuff like that. That specific vaccination left behind much larger scars. Compared to those, a BCG scar is barely even noticeable.

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Jerry Wood5 said:For sure. You'll basically get a specialist on the line immediately who'll set you up for a visit. In most places, you can barely even get through to the switchboard, let alone reach the front desk to actually book anything
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If there wasn't any money, they wouldn't have even started the whole project in the first place. I mean, just look at the staff uniforms. Everyone's got computers—some have basic monitors, while others have those massive, high-end screens. Hospitals pay IT professionals too, so I really don't see why this should be such a huge hurdle
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Medications aren't called the same thing everywhere. Different manufacturers mean different brand names. I've had to ask foreigners to show me the actual box so I could read the generic name just to figure out what kind of medicine we're dealing with
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Man, you're something else. You actually expect a specialist to call *you* back? Like, they don't have anything better to do than sit by the phone waiting for your ring? You call the hospital (Mayo Clinic - 556111 Beverly Hills, 557111 Crossroads) and get the main line—then you tell them what you need. If you were just asking for a transfer, yeah, obviously you didn't get anywhere 🙂. I go to the ENT at Beverly Hills and neurology at Crossroads all the time, and I never have any trouble getting scheduled.

And so what if they have computers? Hardware is everywhere; you can buy it by the ton. The real work is connecting everything and actually buying/paying for the right software... then we can talk. It's not like the hospital IT guy is supposed to code his own custom OS from scratch. How little does little Ivica understand about how digitalization actually works...

Also, what's the big deal with reading a chemical composition? Any pharmacist would know that instantly. As for the handwritten reports, I'm with you there. Everything should be typed.

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Jerry Wood5 said:I really wonder if this whole thing is actually going to work. Down in Miami-Dade County, they’re still turning away patients who don't have their referrals ready—they haven't even started implementing the new system yet. Just imagine being a patient living out on one of the islands. You’re up at 4:00 AM, hopping on a bus, then catching a ferry, then another bus... by 8:00 AM, you finally roll into the Mayo Clinic, only for them to turn you away stone-cold because you're missing a piece of paper. And get this—they didn't even give any heads-up about the change; I only found out when I called personally and was told it was just some director's call. Most of those private clinics don't even have the infrastructure set up to handle electronic referrals anyway.
One thing is for sure: a plan that's well-conceived on paper will fall apart once it hits the wall of bureaucracy and general digital illiteracy. We're talking about a reality where over 50% of doctors aren't even using computers regularly. A colleague of mine actually told me she doesn't even feel like she needs a computer for her day-to-day work.
Picture a foreigner walking into an exam room, only to have the doctor scribble something illegible on a piece of paper for their medical history. We are lightyears away from the standards you see in Europe.🙄

Nah, it didn't really take off. And honestly? It’s totally normal for them to send a patient home if they don't have a referral—unless it's a straight-up emergency. As for that whole "island adventurer" scenario you described... I just can't see it happening. That's not even about being smart. Nobody in America just shows up at a clinic like that—it's just not how things work here. You’re probably going to call the hospital first to schedule something, right? And when you do, they’re always going to remind you to bring your insurance paperwork.

My doctor down in Miami is constantly glued to his computer, yet somehow I still walk away with a physical paper referral every single time. It’s wild—not every hospital system has fully transitioned to digital records because, honestly, they just don't have the budget for it. Why is that?

An outsider will be able to follow the whole medical history—any doctor will get it. I mean, the diagnosis is written in Latin, the test results are all in Latin, and the meds? They’re basically the same everywhere. Or am I just tripping?

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