But, then the government payed doctors to purchase an EMR.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
For being relatively bright folks, as a collective group, docs are on par with dimmest of the dim.
Can you imagine lawyers being driven by droves by chicanery into utilizing EHR's like Epic? To then be asked to perform all the data entry to further regulate their pay downwards, with the end result of diminished and less efficient care and do nothing to reduce liability.
And to add insult to injury, have no way of extricating themselves from the mess, now dependent on governmental incentives to keep the whole thing afloat.
With the hope of decreasing collective cost of health care to society.
This is all madness.
However, on a microcosmic level, I have never felt better about my own practice and being able to keep not only the science but the art of medicine alive to share with my patients with the current tools at hand.
@ Leslie,
I have a thought about incorporating carpal tunnel into your signature
