I agree. This is very, very frustrating. EMRs should save time, not take more. I could generally find a paper report in a chart in under 5 sec. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in the exam room in front of a patient staring at a blank laptop screen.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "