Our recruiter’s say they don’t recruit they repel.” “Which means that every person out of every nine person one matriculates to being a scribe. “We have about a 9-to-1 ratio, Geesbreght says. And you thought med school was competitive? That’s where programs like PhysAssist’s “ I AM SCRIBE University” come in. Most scribes are pre-med students – used to hitting the books, but in need of training. The other big medical scribe companies, Medical Scribe Systems, Scribe America, for example, have thousands more scribes each. “It’s been about a 46 to 50 percent growth rate every year for several years,” Geesbreght says. He says in 2008, PhysAssist had 35 scribes working in hospitals across the country. PhysAssist, the first scribe training and staffing company in the country, is on the second expansion of its Fort Worth headquarters and opened another office in Chicago.Īlex Geesbreght is CEO. These days, scribes are in high demand at hospitals and clinics nationwide. From left: Khuyen Tran, Allana Purcell, David Coates. KERA News A few of "I AM SCRIBE University" students in Fort Worth. “That gives me more time to get home, have dinner with my family, work out, etcetera,” he says. Now, Ramnath says, almost all of the paperwork is completed while the patient is in the office. “Also, I was spending an additional 2-3 hours every clinic just trying to get my medical records done.” “I was really focused on just trying to get the information in and not really focusing on the patient anymore,” Ramnath says. Just a few months ago, Ramnath had to play the role of doctor and transcriber. As the doctor examines the patient’s neck, she sits quietly in the corner, typing notes and speaking into a hand held microphone connected to her laptop. Now, he’s always with Connie.Ĭonnie Gaytan is Ramnath’s scribe. Devesh Ramnath used to see his patients alone. A growing number of physicians in Texas, and across the country, are hiring scribes to gather patient information and lighten their workload.ĭr. Scribes, who in times past worked on everything from translating religious texts to historical book keeping, are making a comeback in the doctor’s office. There may be a future for an ancient profession.
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