Emergency department doctors could receive medical notes the size of Moby Dick, according to study

From TMJ4:

A study from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health showed medical notes — referred to as a chart biopsy — have massively grown in size over the last 17 years, making it more difficult for doctors to sift through an ocean of information during emergency visits.

The study, comically entitled Call me Dr. Ishmael — a reference to Herman Melville's Moby Dick and the length of chart biopsies — shows that at two UW Health emergency rooms, one in five patients come in with a chart with more than 206,000 words.