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Re:Why doctors hate their computers by jatsign on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:47PM (#18384785)
In the last few years, I've noticed that visiting my kids' pediatricians that the doctors spend most of the time during the visit poking at their computer. As a parent, it makes me feel that they're just filling out a form, not caring for my daughters.
Re:Why doctors hate their computers by gbustomtv5 on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:39PM (#18386654)
They care about your daughters but they care about their children too. If they do not fill in electronic records they will have to stay after work. Many doctors have to work at home until 1-2AM to keep up with recordkeeping.

On the other hand, healthcare administrators who demand doctors spend no more than 15 minutes per patient AND fill pages and pages with summaries of visits really do not care about your daughters even a tiny bit.

Re:Why doctors hate their computers by octorian on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:38AM (#18392534)
> They care about your daughters but they care about their children too. If they do not fill in electronic records they will have to stay after work. Many doctors have to work at home until 1-2AM to keep up with recordkeeping.

I can certainly attest to this, from my own experiences growing up (in the 90's). My father is a doctor, and I distinctly remember him spending most of his evenings in his home office doing paperwork. I asked him why he didn't do it at the office, and he said that many of his colleagues did... But as a result, they didn't get home from work until much later. (and he was already getting home just barely in time for dinner)

Re:Why doctors hate their computers by singingboyo on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:23PM (#18385101)
I suppose this is dependent on how much you trust the doctor(s) in question, but, in general, a specialist I trust 'filling out a form' is somewhat reassuring; there's nothing sufficiently bad that they're breaking routine.

When programming, something that makes you think "yup, I'll do that as soon as there's time" is much better (for planning/PM) and more routine than "hmm, not sure, I'll try", right? I think the same applies to personal medicine - routine and boring forms are better than puzzled investigations.

Re:Why doctors hate their computers by brokenmachine on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:27PM (#18387293)
Unfortunately they need to fill out forms for puzzled investigations as well.
Re:Why doctors hate their computers by nradov on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:18AM (#18391733)
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Re:Why doctors hate their computers by mrcu5 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:32AM (#18391869)
It did mention scribes. Even talked about virtual scribes in India.
Re:Why doctors hate their computers by nradov on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:33AM (#18391881)
Sorry I did a Ctrl+F search and it didn't find anything, my mistake.