Spending 80% of my time "documenting" what I'm doing on a GD computer instead of just doing it. Given the chance to fish or cut bait, I'd just as soon go fish!

For guys that actually make a living by "doing" rather than sitting on there sorry a$$e$ typing about what, how, and why it needs to be done.... this is a horribly painful change for the worse.

Not only that, the entire doctor-patient interaction has been severed by interjecting a keyboard and screen between the key players. Patients universally feel like the doc is treating the computer instead of the them. Docs have been reduced to robotic "box checkers", dotting every "I", crossing every "T", clicking every GD box, and running every ridiculous report the govt deems necessary to fulfill its version of "meaningful".

"Meaningful use" needs to be renamed "meaningless excuse" ... to waste taxpayers money and stifle physician productivity.