e-HealthExpert.org - Primum non nocere

In a message dated 5/6/2005 5:16:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
antas@e-healthexpert.org writes:

A study
published at the Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. (2005 Jan;49(1):62-5.)
documents
what seems to be an emerging (and rather unexpected) trend:
Clinical IT
(HIS) systems increase the time that healthcare workers
spend documenting
their activities and not the other way around.

Reminds me of the "law" in Samuel Shem's novel on medical internship,
"The House of God : The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American
Hospital"  ( http://www.rantorama.com/nurs16.html )that
states:
 
"Show me a medical student who ONLY triples my work and I
will kiss his feet"
 
 
-- SS