Where Do You Spend Most of Your Time at Work?
It's certainly not with your patients, says Peter Ubel, MD
Medical appointments are getting shorter by the year. Sometimes it feels like doctors have no time to spend with their patients.
What's to blame for these brief clinical interactions? It could be the electronic health record or EHR. Because of changes in how insurance companies and the government pay for medical care, doctors increasingly need to document their care on the computer, causing many physicians to spend more time with their desktops than with their patients./.../
Half of the time with Electronic Health Records, far from the patients...
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