{"id":13657,"date":"2019-07-24T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:49:03","slug":"when-a-doctors-screen-time-detracts-from-face-time-with-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13657","title":{"rendered":"When A Doctor\u2019s Screen Time Detracts From Face Time With Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>As Wei Wei Lee sat with her doctor to discuss starting a family, she felt a \u201cdistance\u201d between them. The physician was busy on the computer and focused on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just didn\u2019t feel very personal,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seemed as though keeping a record of the conversation was more important to the doctor than making a connection with Lee.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the experience she wanted, but she could relate: Lee is\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Wei Wei Lee, a primary care physician with the University of Chicago Medicine.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/when-a-doctors-screen-time-detracts-from-face-time-with-patients\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) As Wei Wei Lee sat with her doctor to discuss starting a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}