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by bigchewy 4664 days ago
Have lower level people, such as a Medical Assistant or a 1st year resident do the data entry.

ahhh, feels good to do more healing than a great surgeon, before I've even had my Sunday coffee.

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Unfortunately, the note that has to be entered in the EMR has to be started and signed by a fellow (a person who has finished residency but still in training before becoming an attending doctor for those who don't know), and this is the note with the data, and so I (a first year resident) would have to be sitting next to the fellow, he would have to start the note, then I would have to switch seats with him, do some data entry, then he would have to write his impression ("normal", "COPD", "asthma", but in more doctor like terms) and sign the note. The way the system is set up makes this impractical.