EPIC is proof that we don't really need doctors any more.
The administration and the IT folks, together with a proprietary version of Wikipedia can do so much more, and is much more efficient-- i.e., allows far more money to be transferred from patient and government accounts to hospital, insurance company and IT company accounts in far less time.
Leslie -- have you ever looked at the output of EPIC -- that is, what they send us from those big, fancy places that use it? That "synthetic prose", built up from a series of mouse-over boxes is just an abomination! Do you have any sense at all that somewhere a real patient is getting taken care of?
I presume this is all transitional -- but to what, I have no idea.
I suspect we go back to horse and buggy some time in not too distant future -- with medial records on 5 x 7 cards.
Highly reccomended -- Joseph Tainter's work on the "Collapse of Complex Civilizations."
