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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers

“I’ve come to feel that a system that promised to increase my mastery over my work has, instead, increased my work’s mastery over me.” A 2016 study found that physicians spent about two hours doing computer work for every hour spent face to face with a patient—whatever the brand of medical software. The University of Wisconsin found that the average workday for its family physicians had grown to eleven and a half hours. (The New Yorker)