A one Medical doctor "prescribed" me homeopathic medicine for my sore throat. I didn't realize what it was until I looked it up later. Other than that being a member was a nice experience.
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#82Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…
I've used One Medical in NYC for the past two years but I'll probably drop them the next year. The primary care checkups were nowhere near as thorough as ones I've had with one-off doctors. The only benefit that I value that they provide to me is the ability to schedule appointments online, but I frequently find that it is more and more rare to find an open slot the day of (or I have to travel way further across town…
FWIW NYU Langone has a quality app now and obviously the services they offer are much wider. I’ve used One Medical before and felt similar.
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#83A one Medical doctor "prescribed" me homeopathic medicine for my sore throat. I didn't realize what it was until I looked it up later. Other than that being a member was a nice experience.
Had a similar experience with a one medical PA.
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Major advantages: - integrated online doctor visits, so you often don't need to go in - you can message someone with any health question and get a response within 24 hours - you can go to any location and they automatically pull up your full medical history, no need to fill out a form - it is easy to get an appointment the same week or same day if you need it - you can come any time without an appointment for lab wor…
Honestly, this sounds like Kaiser. I guess One Medical is an HMO experience on top of your PPO plan
> Honestly, this sounds like Kaiser. I guess One Medical is an HMO experience on top of your PPO plan
Kaiser provides an HMO plan, but Kaiser's HMO is not typical of most HMOs because most HMOs aren't integrated practices owned by the health insurer (for better or for worse).
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#85Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…
> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…
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#86Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…
> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low There is significant amount of doctors providing mediocre quality services in US (and given the developments like the rise of AI there will be even more of it). What does economics suggest you're to do with mass amounts of cheap low quality goods? Fastfood it. McDonalds for medical services. If that is what One Medical really does, then we have another Uber…
With one medical, many of the practitioners are not doctors, but NPs and such. Some were good as far as I could tell, but others I've used are so so.
Most of the value of one medical was the easy app based scheduling, but since I've realized that something like zocdoc exists, most of it's value has disappeared for me.
Also they don't integrate with things like apple health, while larger hospitals tend to have integration built into them.
Because of that, I'm not very bullish about one medical overall, since a combo of zocdoc + apple health provides most of their benefit, with an expanded set of services available with a set of doctors that are larger than what one medical would provide.
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I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?
The most important thing to me is an understanding that the patient is in charge of their health and the doctor's just there to support the patient. For example, if a patient is already on meds from an online pharmacy, the doctor (after ensuring that the patient isnt causing grave harm to themselves) should be willing to write a prescription for those meds.
At the same time, I think it is unethical for a doctor to continue prescribing medications that they do not believe you actually need based on your current health.
To them/me, it would be malpractice.
If you were on an antibiotic for strep throat, finished your course, and then asked your doctor for more of it without any symptoms, should they prescribe it again? You wouldn't cause grave harm (unless the aggregate risk of super resistant bacteria counts).
All of this shouldn't be conflated with patient centered care, though. I too agree that the patient should be in charge and the doctor should be there to support. But it shouldn't mean that doctors have to do whatever the patient asks of them.
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#88Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…
> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…
In my experience, they are often young and at the beginning of their career. They are still medical doctors, not to take anything away from them, but I mostly rely on them for referrals to specialists as needed.
One Medical removes some friction from the overall system, which as a non-American I find incredibly frustrating.
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> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…
I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?
A good doctor is one who pays attention. I've met my fair share of bad doctors who are overworked and just are not paying attention to what they are doing. Then they end up making mistakes, such as misdiagnosing a condition, prescribing the wrong medication, etc.
It's hard for the average person to know if their doctor is doing a good job until something goes wrong and it's too late.
My doctor now is excellent, he's excellent because he actually listens to what I'm saying. That doesn't mean he always agrees with me, I would hope he doesn't! But at least he is paying attention. Many other doctors seem to go into a keyword search mode when listening to patients. It's the difference between reading a page thoroughly and skim reading it.
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