And all this because.... - Mary Roach

Posted: Nov 12th, 2018 - 8:03 pm In Reply to: The New Yorker magazine: Why doctors hate their computers - Ex-NTMT

they pretty much wanted to save time and money by eliminating the doctors’ having to dictate and our transcribing. Seemed to me the system worked pretty well, and our work was beautiful. Medical records now look like diarrhea compared to our work. We MTs had a lot to be proud of. What a waste, and the patients do lose out.

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The New Yorker magazine: Why doctors hate their computers - Ex-NTMT (Views: 1074, 2018-11-09, 8:02 pm)
- Good article - StillAnMT (Views: 441, 2018-11-10, 7:46 pm)
  - Author - FF (Views: 343, 2018-11-11, 7:15 pm)
    - Then I wonder if he used the same editor for this article NM - StillAnMT (Views: 334, 2018-11-12, 1:27 pm)
- "Something has gone terribly wrong." - Absolutely fascinating albeit very long artcle. Wo (Views: 398, 2018-11-11, 5:53 pm)
  - Maybe he was paid by the line. It was a bit long. - nm (Views: 482, 2018-11-11, 7:17 pm)
- What was not mentioned ... - anon (Views: 692, 2018-11-12, 11:44 am)
  - Epic is a software system...sm - Anon (Views: 382, 2018-11-12, 12:48 pm)
- And all this because.... - Mary Roach
  - re And all this because... - MTSprinter (Views: 261, 2018-11-15, 1:39 pm)
- There was an awful lot of emphasis about the use of scribes. - And he admitted that they (Views: 425, 2018-11-12, 8:11 pm)