The Highest Paid Clerk
| dc.contributor.author | Robbins, Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-26T00:07:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-26T00:07:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07-15 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Robbins RA. The highest paid clerk. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2018;17(1):32-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc089-18 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2160-6773 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/631751 | |
| dc.description | Editorial | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. Physicians are the highest paid clerks in healthcare, but we only have ourselves to blame. At one time charts were often unavailable or illegible and x-rays or outside medical records were often missing. How we longed to have searchable records available. Now we have them but digital medicine has come at a cost. For every hour physicians spend with patients nearly two hours are spent with the electronic healthcare record (EHR) (1). Nurses in the hospital spend nearly as much time with the EHR (2). If a picture is worth a thousand words, the drawing by a 7-year-old depicting her visit to the doctor may say it best with the doctor staring at a computer with his back to the patient (Figure 1). The EHR has done some very positive things. It has reduced medication errors; it assembles laboratory and imaging information; it allows visualization of X-rays; the notes are … | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Arizona Thoracic Society | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.swjpcc.com/editorials/2018/7/15/the-highest-paid-clerk.html | en_US |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | physician | en_US |
| dc.subject | clerk | en_US |
| dc.subject | clerical work | en_US |
| dc.subject | physician autonomy | en_US |
| dc.subject | electronic health care record | en_US |
| dc.subject | electronic medical record | en_US |
| dc.subject | EMR | en_US |
| dc.subject | informed consent | en_US |
| dc.subject | voice recognition | en_US |
| dc.subject | progress note | en_US |
| dc.title | The Highest Paid Clerk | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care | en_US |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2019-02-26T00:07:30Z |
