April 18, 2014 03:59 pm — Today I had a busy day with a full schedule of patients. I struggled to chart my patients' complex histories in an electronic health record that has given me none of the efficiencies it promised. I lost my lunch break to an administrative meeting, leaving me no time to get caught up from a hectic morning. I filled out prior authorization forms for medications that a patient has already been on for six months. I completed more forms and insurance paperwork than I care to remember and bemoaned the low reimbursement we are being paid for our visits.
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