In the NYT article-"A Busy Doctor's Right Hand"-1/14/14, I am amazed how the burden of EMR is magically solved in some corporate boardroom or home garage.
The result is the absurd entity known as a "scribe". A non-professional hired to shadow and assist the physician by insinuating and infiltrating the private domain of Medicine. While assisting the physician with cumbersome tasks of entering data, the scribe will only further fracture the personal doctor-patient relationship which is already severely damaged. Shame on those in the corporate world who concocted this pathetic entity and to those who subscribe to this service. Yes, the problems of EMR were answered with this "Band-Aid" of a solution. Yet, the root of the problem is once again ignored.
