Dr. Bruce

I don't think it's a good idea.

Meaning notes on the patient.

Yeah, everything is now, at least where I'm at, and the

place that I'm at is a national model for computerized digital medical record.

So you can easily, right now they're allowing patients to access more and more of the medical record on their desk, at home from their computer, from their laptop.

Oh, this is even psychiatric notes.

I mean, you can imagine that...

It just flies in the face of just common sense, some of these things.

This study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

I don't really know.

And so how did it come out?

Well, it's still ongoing, and they're just getting feedback from patients, from doctors, on how viable it is.

But I think that it's just like Freedom of Information Act.

It's just like, how much information do we put out there?

And one of the issues right now with the Internet is...

Well, I had a patient last week that came in by ambulance that was belligerent, that was...

uh angry that was demanding and that's not one of your patients that's a drunken mexican no it wasn't a drunken individual somebody that came in that was there are certain even descriptions it's like we we use the term well nourished and that means fat no it means nor that's a normal description and there was feedback for this project and people were so upset their doctor described as well nourished so if they think that meant they're calling them fat right

So it's going to even affect routine practice in terms of how you document on patients.

But I think looking at what a doctor experiences on a day-to-day basis, it's more and more invasive in terms of there should be openness about what your doctor is doing and thinking.

But at some point, I think like what you're bringing up, it does affect patients.