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Adrian Gaty's avatar

Well put! One of the worst parts of current practice is the charting/coding involved, which is so forced, so artificial, there is no way you can make a reliable study out of chart codes. For the non doctors out there, imagine if you were required to fit every single interaction with every unique individual into a prefabricated mold to make some bureaucrat happy. So that, say, watching a stupid tik tok video your annoying coworker shows you and watching the video of your child’s dance recital both have to be officially recorded as “encounter for watching screens.” Now imagine doing stupid, inhuman coding like that all day, every day - and then having another bureaucrat who’s never met you think he can collate it all into a meaningful study! Madness.

I know we will never get rid of this stupid charting waste of time, because lawyers, but my dream is that we at least some day succeed in making lawyers’ lives as stupidly tedious and prohibit them from charging any clients for their time unless they precisely document all their legal reasoning into codes taken from a technical manual written by a robot. It won’t accomplish anything worthwhile or improve the legal profession, but it will be sweet, sweet revenge: )

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Sobshrink's avatar

This is kind of discouraging, but the good news is that, unless you're a researcher in search of hypotheses to investigate, you can cut WAY back on your medical literature reading! :)

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