The article points out that most of these notes are not related to patent care.<p><i>A seasoned supervisor told me that, when he was a resident working in the psychiatric emergency room, he used to see more than three times as many patients as we residents see now.<p>“How?” I asked him, with an incredulous lilt in my voice that could barely be masked.<p>“Our notes could be shorter back then,” was his reply. (Insurance, regulations and electronic health records weren’t issues back then.)</i>