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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by insane_dreamer on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:34PM (#33414274)
> I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of hospitals-depending-on-software.

My daughter works at Epic, and she explained that one (though not the only one) of the big reasons health care is so expensive is because Drs have so many record-keeping requirements, and one reason they have these is because of liability (another is patient record portability). It would greatly help if Americans weren't so lawsuit trigger-happy. The real winners are the lawyers (and insurance companies).

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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by mkbgw on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:14PM (#33415253)
Americans aren't actually don't sure that often, a topic addressed in The Myth of the Litigious Society by David Engel [c.f. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/02/01/book-rev...].
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by insane_dreamer on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:49PM (#33423758)
It's the ease with which one can sue, and the damage it does even if it's baseless, that poses a continuous threat.
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