Crashing by Steven Mussey MD
There once was a time when I actually paid attention to patients instead of fretting about connection issues with the computer network. When the computer crashes, it feels like my whole patient encounter crashes.
Steven Mussey, M.D.
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I print out the encounter form, then look up the patient’s preventive medicine status and recent testing and scribble notes on the form. Then I see the patient, scribble some more, then go to the nursing station and put my PE and other notes into the $%^& EHR along with lab orders etc. I am looking at the patient and s/he doesn’t see or hear me wrestling with the software.
oddly, i look forward to crashes and blackouts, as i get to revert to medicine from 40 years ago. i get to upgrade to a far superior system: paper and fountain pen….