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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the notes and I have a lot of them. I think there is a lot of boilerplate that the docs have to check off in order to meet their metrics. Mine have a lot of “patient indicated understanding” “patient indicated she had no further questions at this time” and my favorite “emotional support provided”.

I would not let it keep me from a doctor I really liked but take it as yet another indication that doctors are mired in bureaucracy instead of patient care. [/quote]

I understand that.  I have to write clinically as well because I'm in the medical field myself. It can make you cringe when you read that stuff about yourself.

I'm talking more about inaccuracies - blatant ones. I never told her a former doctor diagnosed the thing she said was diagnosed. It just never happened. And that concerns me because if I go to another doctor in the future, they could see that and think "Patient has a history of x" when I don't.

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Some of it is probably because of insurance. I had one doctor who told me that he was writing something a certain way in the chart because of insurance. I've seen other inaccuracies in notes that I assume are there because the insurance company wouldn't cover it otherwise.

Either way, our for-profit health-"care" system is the culprit here -- either because of what I'm describing or because it attracts people who are driven primarily by high salaries as opposed to public service.[/quote]

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