To the editor:

To respond to my colleague Tom McLaughlin's column: There is not a current critical shortage of physicians and nurses but rather a critical mal-deployment of physicians and nurses in the United States. There are two major causes for this: the elimination of the clinical support team and the exponential increase in the complexity of clinical documentation.

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