From Medical Transcription, via Andrew Sullivan. The best part:
The U.S. spends roughly $400 billion on paperwork and other administrative costs per year. This is enough to completely fund health care reform in 2011.
Read on if you dare . . .
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You ever watch what nurses do in hospitals these days?
Everytime they blink…..
They have to write it down on a piece of paper….
You can blame some of this on lawyers and people who sue…..sue…sue…
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The nurses may write it down, but I heard a doctor on NPR say recently that he never read anything the nurses write. Heck, they could at least let the poor patient see it!
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Nurses in hospitals spend more time in front of the computer than at patient’s bedside. What ARE they inputting…
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insurance information!!!
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o.o
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Whoops, guess the old “emoticons” do not work the same everywhere. For those who ask I tried to convey “shock”.
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But they used to work here in comments. Perhaps a temporary glitch in WordPress.
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