The Horror of Learning a New Electronic Medical Record
About this video
A hospital switches to Epic and super users are dispatched to teach frustrated physicians, with an opening warning that doctors have had to be reminded not to physically assault their trainers. Flanary satirizes the new EHR as a maze of navigators, smart tools, in-baskets, and hidden assessment sections where even finding basic functions requires a glossary. One doctor taping a handwritten operative note to a screen captures the portrayed depth of the learning curve and resistance.
Key takeaways
- Flanary portrays learning a new EHR as one of medicine’s most dreaded transitions
- The sketch satirizes dense, jargon-heavy system vocabulary as a barrier to basic tasks
- Super users are framed as needing protection from frustrated physicians
Episode details: published January 11, 2024 · 484K views · 2:40 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Everything described is Dr. Glaucomflecken’s (Will Flanary, MD) satire and commentary on the US medical system, attributed to him as satire — his sketches are comedy, not documentation, and this is not medical advice.
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