All medical records are electronic, almost nothing is printed. All doctors have an access to this system through their mobile phones or any computer. This system also keeps not only laboratory results, but all imaging studies with pictures. So patients bring nothing with them.
Doctors can easily communicate through this system, sending messages.
What seemed at first surprising for me, that they also use pagers. Every nurse, doctor has it and some of them actively use them. It saves your time if you don't know somebody's number or the line is busy just knowing the name you will reach this person.
Efficient device
As there are quite a lot of obese patients everything is fited out for them.
Big chairs just for one person
So returning back to Dr.Sturgeon's consultations, each doctor has 2-4 fully equipped consultation rooms. It also helps to save time. While the doctor talks to one patient, his resident examine another one.
Consultation room where you can perform ultrasound and biopsy
Doctors and nurses are really accurate and precise in making detailed history of disease, co-morbidities, complaints. It is very well-coordinated team work.
Dr.Sturgeon performs thyroid biopsy with local anesthesia. We were told that about half of doctors do this procedure without anesthesia in US. The difference is that in Russia we usually biopsy once, but here they do at least two specimens.
After that we were introduced to Dr.Kopp who is Editor in chief of Thyroid journal. We discussed the possibility of starting Thyroid in Russia and it is a great idea.
The end if the day we spent in one of the best places I had ever seen Buddy Guy legends blues cafe with terrific bands! Don't miss it if you are in Chicago!
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