The major point of my note is that we must "protect" the patient/physician interaction. We must support the concept that the manner in which we take a history and perform an exam is important and cannot be "cut short" by electronic devices that require us to take our eyes from the road ahead.
We admire Dr. Chandler’s analogy relating the importance of full attention to patients to the driving experience and seeing what is on the road.
Keep those emails and comments coming.
Dr. Skolnik is associate director of the family medicine residency program at Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital and professor of family and community medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is editor-in-chief of Redi-Reference, a company that creates mobile apps. Dr. Notte practices family medicine and health care informatics at Abington Memorial. They are partners in EHR Practice Consultants. Contact them at info@ehrpc.com.
