… If the doctor spends too much of your 15-minute visit typing or staring at a screen, you have to wonder: What if I have a symptom that just got missed?
“If the screen is turned away from the patient, they don’t know if you’re looking at their electronic health record or playing solitaire or looking up stocks,” notes Dr. Glen Stream of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Stanford now trains med students in the appropriate use of laptops while the students are with patients.
March 29th, 2012 at 8:55AM
The stakes aren’t as high, I suppose, but I feel this way about advising. We used to have a reasonably well-organized handbook, and an advising session was a chat with an occasional glance at the handbook. Now, thanks to ‘improvements’ and supposed paper-saving, an advising meeting is a protracted and confusing internet search session, with occasional glances at the student. I feel *much* less connection with the individual students.