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By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. JACKSON, Mississippi. As doctors spend more and more time on their computers writing up patient records, some doctors have chosen to outsource their note taking to medical scribes. Medical scribes are generally not doctors. They are often paid minimum wage (or just slightly above minimum wage) to take doctor’s notes. According to the New Yorker, medical scribes are essentially glorified note-takers, and their rates of error can be as high 50 percent, according to one study. When medical scribes make mistakes, and when doctors rely on patient’s records drawn up by medical scribes to make diagnostic decisions, medical malpractice can occur. In......

By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. A recent New Yorker article indicates that doctors spend an estimated two hours on the computer for every hour they spend with patients. While we might have been sold on the idea that computers would change medicine for the better, some are starting to wonder whether computers are more of a distraction than anything else. In fact, according to a doctor writing for the New Yorker, doctors may spend as much as half their time in the examination room looking at their computers rather than looking at patients. This means that there’s less time for doctors to listen to......