1. A method for a using at least one processor to provide a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document using at least a portion of one or more existing electronic medical documents, the new electronic medical document including material describing an encounter between a patient and a medical service provider, the method comprising: adding to the new electronic medical document text resulting from performing speech-to-text processing on input speech of the medical service provider describing the encounter between the patient and the medical service provider; receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface; retrieving the one or more existing electronic medical documents in response to determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents satisfy the one or more search parameters identified in the query; displaying on a computer display, a list of medical document sections and, associated with each one section of the medical document sections of the list, a title of the one section and one or more excerpts each comprising text that was included in the one section in at least one of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, wherein the medical document sections included in the list include a first section, wherein the one or more excerpts included in the first section include a first excerpt and a second excerpt that were included in the first section in a first existing electronic medical document of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, and wherein the text of each of the first ant second excerpts is less than all text included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document; for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state; enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and for each one section of the list of medical document sections and for each one of at least one displayed excerpt, of the one section, for which the user has a put a corresponding indicator in the selected state, copying text of the one displayed excerpt into a medical document section of the new electronic medical document corresponding to the one section.