Improving Medicine for the Next Generation of Doctors
Today is that high-quality day -- not the best primary day of the summer season, but the day the brand-new interns have arrived.Every year, there may be this rite of passage, the passing of the baton, as our graduating senior residents flow on to fellowships, or into spots as hospitalists, or to practice jobs here in New York City or other cities, and a fresh new institution of newly-minted physicians arrives geared up to absorb the gauntlet of education as Internal Medicine docs beneath our dysfunctional twenty-first-century healthcare system.The parting departing senior citizens have closed out their electronic fitness record (EHR) debts and deactivated their medical institution email, emptied their mailboxes, and turned in their pagers.What, No Pagers?Turns out the n...