An essay discussing when a doctor is too old, or too young

“The old doctor stored important details about patients in memory, and nowhere else. The doctor’s hesitantly typed notes recording office visits were brief and old-fashioned – a few sentences at most, difficult for anyone else to interpret.

The young doctor remembered little about each patient from visit to visit, but typed volumes, and was a big fan of medical software that supplies preformed phrases, sentences and paragraphs – the results of an entire physical exam, for instance – at the click of the mouse. Sometimes the mouse clicked just a little too quickly and erroneous information crept into the charts.”

So true with the EMR’s. With the boon of template-based systems, you can type entire volumes of notes with a click of a mouse. Very easy to have erroneous information creep into the chart – not to mention dangerous.