Ezekiel Emanuel: evaluation

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…What if I want to become a doctor but don’t want to ever have to touch a cadaver? Should there be a path for me? I just want to look at screens and do software and integrate technical systems with, say, hospital systems. Be a doctor and not get my hands dirty. [laughs] I don’t . . . probably not. But I’m not 100 percent sure about that because there are probably areas where you don’t need the clinical side or even the insights into the clinical side. One of the things you might say that’s gone wrong with electronic health records is that they were designed by people who didn’t understand the clinical interaction. And I think one of the things that totally frustrates current doctors is, “These things were written, and damn it, they don’t integrate well into my clinical experience, into seeing a patient in the office. I’m on the screen too much. I’m not interacting eye-to-eye with patients.” And I think that’s a result of people who really didn’t understand the clinical world . . . Would I learn that from the dead bodies? Wouldn’t I learn that from the live bodies? Will I learn EQ from the dead bodies?…

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