Scribes are doctors' tech support
Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 14:07
in Health & Medicine
The workers, often young pre-med students, enter information into computers as physicians examine patients. Complex electronic medical record systems are mastered, and doctors are able to focus.Melissa Genove has dreamed of becoming a physician since childhood. To help her prepare, she spends as many as 35 hours each week shadowing emergency room doctors at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The 23-year-old listens intently as they examine patients, records their treatment plans in a laptop computer, and follows up on prescriptions, lab tests, consultations with specialists and anything else the doctors order.
