If you spend more than 80 percent of your day staring at a screen, you are no longer a doctor
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The use of health care information technology has increased exponentially over the last five years, and as a frontline physician…
The use of health care information technology has increased exponentially over the last five years, and as a frontline physician…
Eight with a known patient, 10 to 24 with a new patient: these are the average amount of minutes medicine interns spend with…
Eight with a known patient, 10 to 24 with a new patient: these are the average amount of minutes medicine interns spend with…
One late evening on pediatrics call, a frantic young couple brought in their few weeks old baby. She had spiked a fever which…
Note: Certain details in this entry have been omitted or changed to protect the identity of those involved. One late evening on…
I've spent a lot of time writing on this blog about the suboptimal nature of electronic medical records and what we need to be…
I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the suboptimal nature of electronic medical records and what we need to be doing better.
The mantra of striving for excellent customer service is a very American concept. I'm reminded whenever I travel around the…
The mantra of striving for excellent customer service is a very American concept. I’m reminded whenever I travel around the…
One of the topics that I write most about is the interaction of health care information technology with frontline clinical…
One of the topics that I write most about on this blog is the interaction of health care information technology with frontline…
By the end of my first year of residency, I knew I was in trouble. I was overwhelmed by the 15-hour days, the unbearable…
Depression in doctors-in-training seems to be not the exception but the norm, writes Dr. Elisabeth Poorman.
I had just taken over three other residents’ phones and pagers when 2-year-old “Bryce” jumped off the couch in our oncology unit…
x One of the topics’s that I’ve written most about, and also do a considerable amount of non-clinical consulting work on, is how…
I was dining at a friend's house recently after a long day in the hospital. He has just bought a beautiful new home with his…
I was dining at a friend’s house recently after a long day in the hospital. He has just bought a beautiful new home with his…
Ask any frontline physician at the moment what one of their biggest daily frustrations is and you will probably hear a very…
How much time do doctors actually spend with patients during a typical day?The answer to this question should trouble any good…
Natural language processing might seem a bit arcane and technical — the type of thing that software engineers talk about deep…
By BOB WACHTER…
Natural language processing might seem a bit arcane and technical – the type of thing that software engineers talk about deep…
With all of the buzz surrounding meaningful use in health care these days, you’d be forgiven for thinking that something truly…
43 minutes—that’s the median length of time a hospitalized elderly patient spends standing or walking daily, reports a New York…
Like the milkman of yore, the doctor makes rounds every day in the hospital. Alas, this image would be true today only if a…
Forty-three minutes—that’s the median length of time a hospitalized elderly patient spends standing or walking daily, reports a…