One problem with our medical system, is that it doesn't give adequate time with doctors. You want to properly diagnose an illness, you have to allow adequate time to diagnose. We don't do that. You have perhaps 15 minutes with the doctor, and then he (or she) is on to the next customer.
Whether he's had time to diagnose the problem or not.
And, we wonder why we have so many misdiagnoses? Limit your doctor to 15 minutes. Tell him that's all the time he has. He'll likely zero in on the most popular malady with those symptoms and not have time to consider other possibilities. Sure as anything, you are going to have misdiagnoses. We wonder why there are so many malpractice lawsuits? I would guess part of it is due to the number of misdiagnoses.
Just as bad, if a problem comes up during a procedure, and the doctor is on a time schedule for completing the procedure, he is going to have a tendency to rush through the problem, not addressing it adequately. Once again, we wonder why there are so many malpractice suits? If your brush over the problems, you're going to stumble from time to time, and with a stumble comes a lawsuit.
If we would heal our health-care problems, one thing we must do is to take the doctor's visit off the assembly line. Conveyor-belt medicine is not good medicine.
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