> For a doctor that was nearing the age of retirement or had very poor keyboard proficiency...
I went to a doctor recently who was typing very fast. I did kid with her that she could type nearly as fast as I did and yet she was also using one of this automated note taking thinggamagic (holding some kind of microphone in her hand).
She'd type manually for stuff like email/subject, click click one sentence here, click, one word there: for that kind of stuff it's too slow to dictate one word, then click, etc.
But in that big empty text field? She'd dictate.
As a bonus as her patient I got to hear her report (or "my" report if you want) in real-time.
Were they slow? There's actually plenty of people
who can do that at a reasonable or even fast pace. Of course lots of people type reasonably quickly with two thumbs too (or in the case of this comment, a left thumb and right pointer finger).
Doesn't sound real.
I've typed correctly my whole life and have a lower WPM than that.
You'd need to move your fingers at superhuman speeds to achieve that with just two wingers.
I spent literally thirty years typing with two forefingers, and note, I didn’t need to look at the keyboard. Also worked as a software engineer that whole time. So I had a lot of practice.
It’s why it’s taken me so long to try and adapt to touch typing. Too much muscle memory to rewire.
Sure, in the hypothetical where the person also decided to learn to type properly. If someone is plenty fast for their needs then it doesn't really matter, though.
I went to a doctor recently who was typing very fast. I did kid with her that she could type nearly as fast as I did and yet she was also using one of this automated note taking thinggamagic (holding some kind of microphone in her hand).
She'd type manually for stuff like email/subject, click click one sentence here, click, one word there: for that kind of stuff it's too slow to dictate one word, then click, etc.
But in that big empty text field? She'd dictate.
As a bonus as her patient I got to hear her report (or "my" report if you want) in real-time.