KevinMD November 17, 2024
For over twenty years, I’ve had a recurring nightmare: I’m back in medical training, and my patient is crashing. To save them, I must enter my medical orders into the electronic health record (EHR). The only problem is, there are no open computers. I could give a verbal order in a real-life emergency, but those aren’t the rules in this nightmare world. I go from computer to computer, begging for someone to let me use theirs, but all I receive are cold shoulders—and colder stares.
I never shared the dream with anyone until I read Dr. Jessi Gold’s recently published book, How Do You Feel? One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine. Part memoir, part education in psychiatry, and part...
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