Delegation in medicine — a modern-day paradox
Doctors are drowning in desk work.
Medical records, test orders, medication charts, authorisation requests, transfer letters, discharge letters, referral letters, medication reconciliations, prescriptions, sick notes, certificates, reports, summaries, databases, and various other data entries and documents.
Many healthcare stakeholders, namely doctors, express their expectations for artificial intelligence-based programmes to take on this work in the future.
So:
‒ you recognise that there are tasks performed by doctors that don't need to be performed by doctors; in fact, you await the broad implementation of a technology that you trust will perform these tasks with the necessary quality;
‒ meanwhile, you don't trust or train anyone other than doctors to perform these tasks.
Madness.
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