AI in Primary Care: Revolution or Risk?

AI will transform primary care! AI does better diagnostics than doctors! Patients like AI responses to their portal messages better than their doctors’ messages! Providers save hours a day in charting with the help of AI scribes! Lots of hype. What’s real? I haven’t engaged in AI yet in my doctoring, so I have suspended…

How doctors feel about electronic medical records: Not good

Have I mentioned how frustrated I get by my clinic’s EMR? Totally slow, inefficient, I apologize on a regular basis to patients, “I’m sorry, my mind can only work on one thing at a time, I need to put this order in then I’ll talk to you again.” I find myself banging the keyboard when the…