Dr. Rich at the Covert Rationing Blog hosts this week’s grand rounds. Marrying his sarcastic wit and the blog’s theme about health care delivery, he creates an intriguing and humorous edition to read. On The Wards participates this week our article on typed versus dictated discharge summaries. Dr. Rich presents the article as follows:

On The Wards discusses a study that compares the relative efficiencies of electronically typed versus voice-dictated medical discharge summaries. Both work just fine, it turns out, but younger physicians (born and raised with AIM, text messages and Twitter) prefer typing. DrRich, however, hates to think of medical records stuffed with emoticons.

I am grateful to Dr. Rich for graciously including our article despite its late submission. I recently have been having Internet connectivity issues for hours at a time, thus prohibiting me from posting and submitting the article in a timely manner. My Internet issues still persist, which explains why this announcement about Grand Rounds 5.47 is a day late. My Internet service provider is aware of the problem, so I hope it resolves soon.