An attending surgeon in a southern New Hampshire hospital, Dr. Gaylord Broadbent, is forcing his interns to learn to use something called “paper charts”, an ancient form of chronicling a patients medical history and progress.
Dr. Broadbent is also printing out both ECG results onto some kind of weird long paper for the interns and residents to read…and it doesn’t stop there. There have even been reports of Dr. Broadbent holding up x-rays to various light sources throughout the hospital rather than look at the result on a computer.
Dr. Pedro Sanchez, a first-year surgical intern at the hospital, was very confused when he first arrived. “I had never seen anything like it, he was using pens and pencils to write stuff down in charts and I don’t think he even owns a tablet, it was spooky” said Sanchez. “I had no idea how to use any of the stuff he was showing me. I kept asking if there was an app for it, and he just seemed to get grumpier every time I asked.”
Dr. Broadbent is a very widely respected and distinguished surgeon, but hospital administrators are quietly trying to get him to retire, which can’t come early enough for his interns.
“I mean what’s next? Is he going to get us to go look stuff up in a library instead of on our phones?” laughed Sanchez.
