Repercussions.
Every action that is taken, especially when it comes to healthcare, has ripple effects, which often end up being more far more significant than we anticipate, turning that ripple into a tidal wave.
Every time somebody besides actual health care providers steps into the mix and tell those of us taking care of patients that there is “something else that we have to do,” we often see it open up a proverbial can of worms that in many cases we didn’t want opened.
Whenever government regulators, hospital administrators, the makers of electronic health records, or bureaucrats from insurance companies, come up with creative new things they’d like us to measure or insist that we do, this usually leads to an increase in the burdens on an already stressed-out and burned-out health care community. And it often happens in the vacuum of not asking us, the ones right there taking care of patients, whether this is really worth it, really the right thing to do.
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