I think it ultimately boils down to demonstrating respect for the patient as a person. Having spent a few hours yesterday evening in the local emergency room (all is well now), we were wondering why our patient was given one of the rooms with a door/curtain while others were left to lie along the corridor. Was it the nature of the patient’s condition? The coverage of our insurance policy? Racism/classism? Or just random chance?
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Endlessly waiting in waiting room or corridor with feeble elderly is awful, no two ways about it!
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In some other countries, rapid home tests for flu, RSV, and COVID-19 are available:
These combination tests are available in Europe for 6.5 €. A combination test is available in the US, but requires mailing the sample to a lab, and costs $169.
Strep testing is usually done with a swab of the throat (rather than nostril), so it would not combine well with flu, RSV, and COVID-19 testing. It would also be more difficult to self-administer even if it were available as such.
I sure would like it if we could self-test like that and 6.5 Euros is a nice price. People often pay more than that just for one self-administered covid test!
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What you’re asking is in a system that presently has too many holes in it to provide safe transfer of files without compromising privacy. For all the technology it just isn’t private enough. Wish it was.
Yes, Anthem was hacked and the credit bureaus themselves have been hacked as gave so many other companies! It’s pretty awful!
My auto dealership just has the weather channel on or HGTV. I was told by one of the service writers that they hide the remote and they don’t keep on the news station…too many people were complaining. They’d complain that it was too liberal if they had CNN or MSNBC on or too conservative if they had on Fox News. So they just switched it HGTV and/or the weather channel. People stopped complaining.
I’ve been noticing that too. I went to the dermatologist recently and it was like going to a fancy spa! My old dermatologist, recently retired and closed his practice. His office was very nice, but it didn’t have the feel of a fancy hotel spa. This new one was on my insurance and I’m pretty sure my jaw dropped to the floor when I entered the waiting room.
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Well, those three are more opinion stations than news stations, so no surprise that people complain about their political leanings.
True!
That’s why they switched to more neutral stations.
I don’t mind tv’s in car dealership waiting rooms. I usually have my kids or my husband pick me up anyways.
At doctor’s offices, I don’t like tv’s maybe because I usually have to wait there longer. Luckily, most of my doctor’s offices have not had tvs.