NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 12, 2023 BioCT is delighted to announce the appointment of David Scheer as Co-Chair of its Board of Directors. With a distinguished career in the life sciences industry and extensive experience in building successful companies, David brings invaluable expertise to his new leadership role within BioCT.
There are thousands who intersect with our health care system who have stories to share. Some write those stories here on KevinMD, but many times, the impact is more visceral when told in their own words, with their own voices.
Samuel Shem, MD on how can we put the connection back into medicine [PODCAST]
“There is a frenzy of trying to use technology to re-establish the healing human connection in the doctor-patient interaction. These efforts range from advanced transcription of voice-to-record, scribes who do the data recording during a patient encounter, and so on. The IT department at NYU Grossman Medical School, where I teach, worked with the dominant and much-loathed electronic medical record to create a patient-focused dashboard for each doctor. The dashboard both improved quality of outcomes and reduced costs.
These attempts are useful, but they don’t address the root cause of this inhuman encounter: billing, the link of patient data to cash. In each of these tech improvements, the doctor is still forced by the money-people to massage the bill for the highest private insurance payments. There is a war across the screen and like all wars, it’s about money. On one side, doctors are forced by
Forty-two years ago, when I had finally finished the seven revisions of my first novel, The House of God, my editor said, “Why don’t you add a glossary and a list of The Laws of the House of God.” Writing the Laws, I hardly needed to refer to the text; they just flowed out. The Laws became common parlance, not only tacked up in on-call rooms but even, recently, listed on a T-shirt for sale. Medicine has changed drastically, but the House Laws are still here.
The Laws of The House of God (1978)
I. Gomers don’t die.
II. Gomers go to the ground.