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American doctors have not been enemies of the digital revolution. Looking up lab results and x-rays on our computer screens beat out carbon copies and sheet film in an instant. We like e-mail; we shop, take tests and read our journals on line. But the romance, for most of us, began to sour with Computerized Physician Order Entry [CPOE]: entering patients' hospital orders on the computer. This is when we first confronted the downside to uploading our every medical judgment...
...real, live, analog nurse, that it isn't just going to disappear. (It does.) We can't order certain things with those buttons and pull-down menus that we could in writing - things like "patient may wear her own flannel nightgown and underwear" or "please, please get the x-ray I ordered for yesterday", or "prop up patient's legs with pillows like this" followed by a little stick-figure drawing. (See pictures from an X-Ray studio...
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...McManus, Director of Nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who headed the diet intervention committee for the study. “It’s exciting—the message encourages long-term healthy eating habits.” —Staff writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...
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