Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork

This article documents the metamorphosis of doctors into documenters, often to the detriment of both the patient and doctor, in the current health care environement in the U.S.
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Paperwork, or documentation, takes up as much as a third of a physician’s workday; and for many practicing doctors, these administrative tasks have become increasingly intolerable, a source of deteriorating professional morale. Having become physicians in order to work with patients, doctors instead find themselves facing piles of charts and encounter and billing forms, as well as the innumerable bureaucratic permutations of dozens of health insurance companies.
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