My new doctor’s office sent me a helpful packet of papers to fill out before I show up for my first appointment. After filling out about half of them, I feel like I’m about to buy a house or lease a car at the very least. To add insult to injury, I’m pretty sire 97.9% of this information is covered in the giant medical record I had my old doctor ship to them last week. It just seems that there is a better way to deal with this than filling out endless hardcopy forms in duplicate. If the Library of Congress and Google can basically digitize the sum total of printed human knowledge, I don’t think a digital medical history you can upload to the cloud is too much to ask for here in the second decade of the 21st century. I mean if science can build a nanorobot to scrape the plaque from my aorta, surely we can figure out a way to pdf the sheet of paper that says I came in last February because my dosage of Nexium needed kicked up a notch, right?