Real Psychiatry

I got this idea today while reading the usual Twitter complaints about the electronic health record. A post by physician I kne...

Physician Decision Support Software from the 20th Century I used to teach a class in medical informatics. My emphasis was not mista...

I have critiqued the checklist approach to psychiatry in many posts on this blog.  Several like-mind psychiatrists have also added man...

The review of systems for psychiatry has changed significantly over the years.  Those changes were due to billing and coding decisio...

The Medication Reconciliation Process Medication reconciliation has become a term that is much en vogue after the Joint Commission and ...

Since my Labor Day message to colleagues dovetails so well with these editorials, I did not want to miss the opportunity to comment...

I missed my Labor Day message last year for some reason.  I must have been too burned out.  Burnout has been a big theme in the physicia...

The above example is as clear as it gets in terms of illustrating the problem with electronic health record (EHR) software and associat...