Bit by bit, we yielded to the encroachment of government and provider regulations, mandates and prescribed recordkeeping, citing some advantages but, for the most part, compensating for these directives by working extra hours to complete the new charting decrees, decreasing face-to-face patient time and task sharing.
To add to the loss of our discipline’s personal responsibility and professionalism, we are also being coerced to treat metrics rather than patients. We are told that hewing