Roy,

That was a marvelous explanation!! I think it is pretty obvious that most of us here are docs who march to a little different drummer. I think we are the "throw-backs"...the ones who have resisted with all our hearts, to jump into the corporate fish bowl. I bet the majority of you despise voice mail, shop at your local corner markets, support the independant pharmacies, still look for a gas station where the Texaco Man in his bow-tie will wash your windows, and still hold strong to the idealistic world of Marcus Welby. Not to say that we are not technologically informed or medically progressive. The sad thing is that I have a whole practice of patients who feel the same way I do and I suspect there is a whole society out there that yearns for the way things used to be. It saddens me to realize Generation X and beyond have no idea just what a service oriented business is. But, like sheep being led to the slaughter, we have allowed corporate America to take us down this "new and improved", "upgraded", "faster, "sleeker" road and I doubt we will ever find our way back.
Oh well, we have AC, for now at least, and with good fortune, it will not metamorphasize into just another EMR, full of bells and whistles and shiny thing-a-ma-jigs....and empty promises.
Sorry for the long rant. I had a fit of nostalgia.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "