Painting of Paul's Damascus Road Conversion Electronic Medical Records (EMR) promises to be the holy grail of modern medicine. It aims to deliver us from the Smith Corona era into the digital age. I’m a gastroenterologist who has already been practicing digitally for two decades. I guess I am way ahead of my time Is EMR progress? Consider these two hypothetical patient assessments. The assessment is a critical section of the medical record where the physician shares his thinking on the patient’s condition. The assessment answers the question, “What do you think is going on here and why?” The Old Fashioned, Archaic, Fossilized and Sclerotic Assessment The quality and timing of the patient’s abdominal pain is strongly suggestive of mesenteric ischemia (lack of blood supply to the guts), as the pain consistently develops 45 minutes after meals. The patient has numerous risk factors for this condition. Peptic ulcer disease is unlikely as the patient ha
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