...then he’s one of the lucky ones! One study found that for every hour a physician spends with a patient, she spends two on processing health records.

https://www.jwatch.org/fw111995/2016/09/06/half-physician-ti...

Heck, I hear bricklayers need to spend some time mixing cement and getting bricks off the truck, not just scooping mud and sticking bricks.

Health records ARE a big part of the product of a doctor. Keeping a good chart and finding trends over time is a bit part of the service you need.

I long for practices that would keep no record of my issues, except what I volunteer to them at the beginning of the consult. Many countries do that just fine, but for some reason in the US I am asked to fill pages on insignificant trivia to cover their ass or follow some weird law or tradition maybe?

I don't want perfect healthcare. Good enough is fine!

So now I just see doctors when traveling. Simpler, faster, and cheaper too.

A mostly functional program with amazing docs beats a more functional black box.