Thank you, Madam Chair.
Let me go back to the question that Dr. Price did not have time to answer. It had to do with the concerns of health care providers in relation to the OSCAR system that you implemented.
As a general practitioner, I have some questions about this whole technology. I am not saying that it is bad, on the contrary. It is very useful. It enables us to save a lot of time and to have access to our patients' records. But I am wondering what place the industry is giving to the doctor-patient relationship.
I am probably old-fashioned, but I see that some patients who go to the doctor's office do not have an organic disease. Instead, they need someone to listen to them. Sometimes, it takes a number of appointments to realize that the patient has a psychological problem rather than an organic one. If doctors relied on what patients say, they would be tempted to order a series of tests.
How can we work with this situation? My colleague Dr. Carrie talked about a physician who was using a BlackBerry to measure patients' heart rates, to monitor their hearts, and so on. In this industry, I still think that the role of physicians, particularly general practitioners, is based on trust and on the relationships they have with their patients.
How do you see this in the future?