[neverevergiveup]

"#4: electronic gadgets can never offer the ability to quickly thumb through a book to read bits and pieces here and there... Electronically, it is very hard to thumb through the pages."

I agree entirely, and this is actually a problem with electronic medical records. If paper charts are well-organized, it's much easier to access information by flipping to appropriate sections (e.g. previous procedures, original operative notes, etc.) while dictating a note off a chart, as compared to trying to find everything and navigate multiple fields in an electronic record. Maybe if they were organized better, unlike the POS Epic program, it would be less painful.

[TexasGator]

Do you know whay a ‘bookmark is?

[exDemMom]

Indeed. For business, I save everything in electronic format on my computer. But if I am in the middle of a task, I print everything related to the task and put it in a folder for easy reference. Then, when I finish the task, I scan everything I need to keep—if I have written on any papers, I want to keep the notes—and shred everything.

I suppose, when I leave this job, I will save a selection of those electronic records to a dvd, and then destroy that several years in the future. For legal reasons, of course, since I am no Hillary Clinton.