Monday, November 30, 2015

Where's the Face-to-Face Time?

Here's a short piece written by Dr. Graham Walker, an emergency physician at Kaiser San Francisco, about how medicine's technological uber-efficiency has adversely affected the collegiality - and even the patient care - in hospitals.

This issue has ramifications for residency programs: Trainees and their attendings need to interact across specialties in a face-to-face manner to improve resident education and patient well-being.