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My doctor visit routine goes like this: Nurse asks for my password to login into mymedtronic.com to "download my data" this costs me 20 dollars. Nurse gets access to special healthcare only charts, you know ones that are actually somewhat useful and prints them. My doctor looks at the prints and stuffs them into my file, rubs my feet and tells me to keep up the exercise. That was a 50 dollar foot massage. I don't want to think what that would cost without insurance.


Your doctor is looking for lesions - diabetic foot kills a large number of people. The ones that don't die have a leg amputated.


I know that is what he is doing, what I don't know is if that was worth my time or money. I am nimble enough to see lesions for myself and smart enough to see a doc if I get one.

But that was not my main concern...

The worst thing is that instead of using the the data in combination with all their patients to form some sort of massive dataset that could help everyone... they print a chart for my file.




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