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How You Can Make Yourself Smarter & When Efficiency Actually Slows You Down

Something You Should Know

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Are We Pushed Into Being Too Efficient?

People pursue efficiency on the assumption that pursuing efficiency is really going to make us more efficient. We don't necessarily know for sure how very efficient some of these things are. Electronic medical records were supposed to be something that would relieve doctors of routine work. But what people didn't foresee was that, in order to pursue this efficiency, physicians and their staffs had to spend more and more time meticulously entering records into a format suitable for electronic medical records.

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