From the Wall Street Journal:
Computers, laptops and tablets are increasingly occupying your physician’s attention as more medical practices record their patients’ data electronically rather than on paper. This has changed the dynamics between some doctors and patients and created new communication challenges, research shows.
My vital signs are taken by computer nowadays;
the doctor reads the screen in diagnosing my malaise.
He never looks me in the eye or asks how I am doing.
(Sometimes I think he a DVD is simply viewing.)
Hey doc, shut up your laptop while the day is bright and young,
and take my pulse or ask me please to stick out my pink tongue!
I can Google anything as well as you can, doctor.
What I need is sympathy, and not a cyber-proctor.
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