10/05/2026
We all have colleagues who sit up at night when the house is entirely quiet.
Everybody's gone to bed except for them. Clicking away at the kitchen table. Finishing up notes.
They call it pajama time.
Sounds like it should be fun. It's not.
Here's how it happens:
You spend an hour in the room with a patient. Taking notes on paper. Asking about sleep, stress, nutrition, meds, every symptom, every system. Doing a really good job. Documenting successes and failures. Reviewing all the screenings. The patient tells the story. You listen intently.
The patient leaves feeling heard. Great visit.
But that's when the real work begins.
Documenting the entire story. Figuring out how the symptoms relate. Developing a treatment plan. Ordering labs. Recording supplements. Creating follow-up tasks.
For most systems, that means a lot of different screens. Notes are here. Orders are there. Messaging is somewhere else. Supplements are in another app altogether.
An hour visit generates two hours of follow-up work.
Your family doesn't understand why you're working until midnight when you only saw five patients. Your kids wish you'd just stop working.
This isn't the freedom you hoped for when you left traditional medicine.
The further you get into doing a really bang-up job, the longer it takes to document. And that's because your architecture isn't set up right.
But the problem isn't you. The problem is you're doing functional medicine in a system built for billing departments.
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