EPITOME OF A HEALER Dr. Bhatt feels the impact of AIMA’s 40 years of service when he sees the patients he shares with the practice. He says those patients have been sad- dened since the announcement of the closing.
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follow-up, I have come to appreciate how close and sacred these relation- ships are between the physicians of AIMA and their patients,” he said. “They are role models for the younger generation of physicians. They are the epitome of the ‘physician healer.’” A younger physician who’s never
known a world without EHRs, Dr. Bhatt says implementing one is a Her- culean task for a practice of any size, but doing so poses additional chal- lenges to practices that have used pa- per charts for a long time. He says the challenges can become insurmount- able when you consider the penalty Medicare now imposes for practices that don’t use EHRs. Dr. Hoverman, however, holds a somewhat optimistic view of the rela- tionship between medicine and tech- nology and says of the changes in the profession over time, “I think eventu- ally, we’ll figure it out. “Every generation worries about changes, that you’re going to lose something, and I think every genera- tion has always worried that we will lose the personalization of the doctor- patient relationship,” she said. “We as physicians have to make sure we don’t let technology and regulations get in the way of how we interact with, re- late to, and care for our patients.” Getting to know his patients is one of the aspects of the job Dr. Ream will miss most. “They’re much more like family and friends, and that’s going to be dif- ficult,” he said. “On the other hand, everywhere I look tells me it’s time to retire.”
Joey Berlin is a reporter for Texas Medicine. You can reach him by phone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1393, or (512) 370-1393; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at
joey.berlin@
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