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This is an article that reveals the time physicians spend on the EHR compared to clinical time with patients. Physicians need to be paid for their time spent on the EHR. This time is easy to track, and this would reduce the imbalance of thinking specialties versus surgical specialties. The average across all specialties is 5.8 hours or EHR time per 8-hour block of time seeing patients. Infectious disease doctors spend 8.4 hours of EHR time per 8 hours of clinical time with patients. The study was done using Epic system EHR and sampled over 200,000 physicians. Much of the time spent on the EHR was outside of normal clinic hours. This leads to physician burnout. EHRs have three main features: • They are massively inefficient. This is the only use of technology that makes an industry less efficient. • They are extremely expensive and waste billions of dollars a year. • They put patient-protected health information at risk. If we want better patient access to care, then we need a different system than EHRs.