Re:Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier
by conanbatt on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:12AM
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Some very good points. In the practice of medicine, and in particular in the litigious US, you cant ask questions you wont act on. You are liable for the responses, so might as well not ask.
Stupid af.
This doesn't mean that the doctors bury their heads in the sand, but it is a part of the reason providers are resistant to adopting these tools. Relying on their own knowledge and intuition may not be better but it won't hurt them as evidence in a hypothetical malpractice suit. The decision support tool has to be sufficiently better to outweigh this.
I hold no opinion on the validity of this line of thinking, but I can say that it is part of the calculus, at least for some.