<i>What benefit are you thinking would be the outcome of the increasing need for doctors and nurses to document what they do?</i><p>The complaint above was about &quot;making notes&quot;. In a hospital setting, those notes would be used when shifts change. Or, when patients come back for follow-up. That would be part of &quot;practicing medicine&quot; and not something we can remove completely (though we can make it more efficient).<p>I have no idea how much of that type of note-taking has to be done by the MD (or nurse). Or, how much of it is simply red-tape.