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  • My parents are MDs in the US. In the early aughts, they used to do dictations after meeting with parents. I think they just included the tapes with their other medical records. When their system switched to electronic records, they had to type everything. They tried to use this TTS software called Dragon, but it wasn't really optimized for medical jargon. I remember seeing my mom cry because for a while, it seemed like all she did when she was home was try to catch up on charting. I think on top of that, the early EMR systems were not very user-friendly, which made things take longer.

    A big part of the problem is that theur hospital system didn't properly allocate time for them to chart, so the transition to EMR essentially just meant any loss of efficiency turned into homework. Having a much more standardized format that required everything to be typed instead of spoken required a greater investment of time. And on top of that, their job is to treat patients, not spend all day note-taking.

    Some doctors have professional "scribes". The place my parents worked just never found room in the budget for scribes for my parents.

  • I left Windows for ideological reasons - moral opposition to nonfree software, wanting to be free of corporate surveillance, and not wanting to support the American techno-plutocracy. But now when I try to convert people from Windows, I just say "the UX sucks".

    I have to use Windows 11 for my day job. It is so much slower, context menus are difficult to navigate, everything defaults to being saved on OneDrive, and honestly, I just think it's ugly.