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This is basically how electronic medical records already work. Good ones have things neatly templated for different sorts of encounters and voice recognition to help speed up documentation. Printouts for patients are typically handled by clerical staff. There are quite a few hospitals that struggle with both implementation and operationalizing workflows to make this actually work, but it's how things are supposed to work. In practice, the IT teams do a middling job of setting things up and training users, the physicians are old and don't want to do the work, the government regulations are burdensome and make the whole thing more cumbersome and unintuitive than it needs to be, and the result is a boomer doctors declaring that computers are stupid.
Yeah I was more aiming for your General Practitioner (GP) in a clinic having a printer at his desk and potentially a notes template with letterhead ready to go. Smash out 5 x 1 line dot points summarising your advice on how to manage their condition and have it auto save into their file.
If it isn't as easy as that it won't get done. You'd be lucky to get some unintelligible scribble notes on a sheet ripped out of a physical notepad even if you requested it.
These five bullet points will get padded out with 10,000 bullet points of ass covering and the end result will be no one reading it because of course the medication is known to the state of California to cause cancer, what isn’t?
This happens a lot in our own fucking notes we used to share mission critical information with each other (called note bloat), pretty much zero reason to assume it will have the smallest usefulness for patient facing stuff (for the reasons you outline).
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