Practice Management
Joshua Russell, MD, MSc, FACEP, FCUCM “It only hurts right here,” Rich told me, pointing to a tender spot on his ribs under near his arm pit. I palpated his chest wall and observed as he winced when I hit the spot. “I just need to make sure I’m okay to go back to work.” Rich was middle-aged and had a mustache with hints of grey. He was a large man, but his potbelly was …
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Click Here to download the PDF In the macro and “dot phrase” era, there are many refrains that appear in the electronic medical record (EMR) with such regularity that we don’t even notice them anymore. Statements like All questions were answered prior to discharge, The patient verbalizes understanding and is comfortable with the plan, and Symptomatic care and over-the-counter treatments discussed are so commonly tacked onto charts that our eyes have been trained to gloss …
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