{"id":105,"date":"2007-03-29T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/03\/29\/digital-doctoring\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T18:49:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T22:49:25","slug":"digital-doctoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/03\/29\/digital-doctoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital doctoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of my <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/legaled\">white paper<\/a>, the Dean of Harvard Medical School publishes an op-ed in today&#8217;s Globe makes essentially the same argument as the paper, only more succinctly, coherently, and compellingly. As the pull-quote summarizes: &#8220;The revolution in medical technology requires a revolution in training.&#8221; From a general view, law and medicine (and their respective professional schools) share a lot in common.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a letter I sent to the Globe responding to this excellent and timely piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joseph Martin raises the same concerns that lawyers have about the growing role of computers in our work (\u201cDigital Doctoring,\u201d Op-Ed, March 29). \u201cRip it out\u201d is how many law professors react to laptops in the classroom. No surprise, then, that a recent study I authored found that law students and lawyers have scarce opportunity to learn new skills like how to manage complex global teams using technology.<\/p>\n<p>As in medicine, the cost of ignoring technology is high. In a nation where fewer than 4 in 10 middle-class Americans facing legal problems have access to an attorney (3 in 10 for low-income individuals), technology can enable lawyers to meet the need by working smarter. For example, software developed at Chicago-Kent Law School helps clients fill out paperwork by translating legalese into plain English. Attorneys need more tools like this \u2013 and the skill to use them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to assume that \u201cdigital natives\u201d will figure it all out with time. But best practice emerges when someone bothers to study what works \u2013 a role that medical schools have long played for doctors. Law schools today have a similar opportunity to partner with practicing attorneys to discover digital responses to the ancient call of justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, the challenge of keeping under 200 words pushes the question of what&#8217;s really at stake. To me it really is about addressing unmet legal needs through better leverage of scarce resources (aka lawyers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of my white paper, the Dean of Harvard Medical School publishes an op-ed in today&#8217;s Globe makes essentially the same argument as the paper, only more succinctly, coherently, and compellingly. As the pull-quote summarizes: &#8220;The revolution in medical technology requires a revolution in training.&#8221; From a general view, law and medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-professional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}