Navdeep Tangri

So the real gain was a little over twenty seconds a note.

And the authors themselves warned that the time spent editing the draft inside the scribe's own app wasn't counted, so even that may be an overestimate.

Twenty seconds.

I've spent longer finding the scribe button.

Roughly one in seven doctors assigned a scribe never used it at all.

But here's the part that matters for our story.

Burnout-related survey scores looked better with both tools, though the authors call those findings preliminary.

And the doctors said clinically significant errors showed up occasionally: omissions, wrong pronouns, a patient's parent's history filed as the patient's own, and one note that heard "not drinking alcohol" as "now drinking alcohol."