Dr. Michael Pappas hates it when a nurse practitioner is called a mid-level provider: “Stop calling nurse practitioners mid-level providers.” So do I, though my reasons are a bit different. In order to understand them it will be necessary to revisit those dark ages, a time when such individuals were few and the roles played in the drama we know …
Solving the mid-level dilemma: Call them what they really are
In a recent posting Dr. Kaylan Baban mused about the ubiquity of scribes and some of the reasons behind this growing phenomenon. Among them were the usual suspects: increasing patient loads leading to decreased visit times with the provider, increasing non-clinical demands monopolizing time that would be better spent actually practicing medicine, and improved legibility of notes, which are now the patient’s property and are used for a …
Scribes put humanity back into the practice of medicine
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