This appeared late last week.Turn Off the Computer and Listen to the PatientThe practice of medicine is a subtle art. Doctors need to give patients their undivided attention. By Caleb Gardner and John Levinson Sept. 21, 2016 6:50 p.m. ET Of the many problems facing modern medicine, the deterioration of the patient-doctor relationship is one of the most pernicious. Today our health-care system is losing its humanity amid increasingly automated and computer-driven interactions between doctors and patients. The signs and symptoms of this pathology are everywhere and have been described in these pages: Primary-care appointments are now as short as five minutes, and the physician must spend much of that time typing instead of attending to the patient and performing a physical examination. Medical students and residents are spending more time with screens than with patients. A 2013 study from Johns Hopkins showed that first-year physicians spent a meager eight minutes a day with each of...
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