Well, every "patient" here must fight the algorithm. It's a really firm algorithm. I know that the doc my friend is seeing (my doc) is not so firm, and wants to learn - asks me questions about how I got my scores down, etc. (I've never had a doc ask me that!).
So - unlike California - I think there is still some privacy in the room with the doc. BUT the doc must comply or will be hanged. (or delicensed, or suspended, or - whatever AHPRA decides to do based on the complaint) (I have had 3 of my docs suffer from AHPRA inquisitions, some of which ended poorly, and often when I go looking for a special doc - I'll find they are suspended for talking nutrition, which is forbidden).
Influence the clinic? What are you asking? The clinic is corporate, how could anyone influence that? You may be able to influence a little bit at the doc level.
Aha. And do members have any influence over the clinic?
Well, every "patient" here must fight the algorithm. It's a really firm algorithm. I know that the doc my friend is seeing (my doc) is not so firm, and wants to learn - asks me questions about how I got my scores down, etc. (I've never had a doc ask me that!).
So - unlike California - I think there is still some privacy in the room with the doc. BUT the doc must comply or will be hanged. (or delicensed, or suspended, or - whatever AHPRA decides to do based on the complaint) (I have had 3 of my docs suffer from AHPRA inquisitions, some of which ended poorly, and often when I go looking for a special doc - I'll find they are suspended for talking nutrition, which is forbidden).
Influence the clinic? What are you asking? The clinic is corporate, how could anyone influence that? You may be able to influence a little bit at the doc level.
Of course. That's the root of the problem. If we had patient-doctor insurance cooperatives, we would have influence.
In the system as it is, we are the ones paying, and get no influence. Sucks.