Tag: scribes

Information Technology in Healthcare is a Mixed Blessing… So Far

October 18th, 2012
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Last month, I found myself cursing at the television while watching the network evening news with my wife.  There was a story running about the “atypical presentations” of women and heart disease. Everything from fatigue, to nausea, to dizziness…… “may be signs of a heart attack”. “Oh boy,” I said to my wife, “this is […]

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Are Emergency Medicine Residents Getting More Entrepreneurial?

October 12th, 2012
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One needn’t have traveled to Denver for the annual ACEP conference to know that the practice of emergency medicine is undergoing rapid change. But one thing I did sense there is that the new crop of emergency medicine physicians are more interested than ever in understanding and adapting to that change. Leaving the political pundits […]

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Science vs. Art In Medicine And The Use Of Medical Scribes

November 5th, 2009
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Are we losing the art of medicine as science advances? One of the challenges we constantly face in delivering clinically compassionate care is to continue to ensure that appropriately skilled people are performing critical jobs. Just as important is to continue remove the non–essential tasks from those critical individuals so they may focus on the […]

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