<span itemprop="author">Janet Tamaren, MD

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Are you guilty of anchoring bias?

As doctors, we have all been guilty of anchoring bias, which means we put too much weight on the first complaint. When a patient presents to the clinic with a complaint that sounds vaguely like a headache due to a sinus infection, we whip out the scrip…

To scribe or not to scribe? That is the question.

By this title, I mean whether it is a good idea or not to hire a scribe to enter data into the electronic medical record (EMR) system. I favor having a scribe. I came of age with paper charts, and I found the transition to EMR tricky and time-consuming…