You can do this:
Posted By: nana on 2007-10-09
In Reply to: The consumer age is here. - Hayseed
Shop at Macy's (example) even if it kills you to write the check (go to the sales, I do). I refuse to patronize WalMart. WalMart is the beginning of the END. Soon, we will all have NO jobs if this continues. Support businesses that are not "plastic Stepford Wife" businesses. Give them your business card. They will remember and you will be rewarded with work when they pass your card to someone like us). I am also a RN (yuck to that, it was a huge MISTAKE and all RNs will go to heaven) and have been doing transcribing for a long, long time. Do any of you remember handwritten notes? They were illegible for the most part and certainly did not contribute to good patient care. Even the creators of the handwritten notes couldn't read them, much less the doctors that requested the patient records. The documentation is only good and aides good patient care and covers your backside if it is correct and legible. Wait until a few court cases arise and see how much they like it! Most of my doctors are brilliant doctors, but only one or two can actually spell and punctuate. Each day I save them from financial and professional ruin (the ones who can't spell or formulate a sentence and in return they appreciate me and sign my check every month). They have the benefit of good documentation that they would not be embarrased to have shown on the wall in a courtroom too! Smart doctors who use their brains will NOT go down this road. I typed for two years into an automated patient record, but the doctors used it, for instance, to call into during hours when they were at the hospital on rounds or when an emergency arose for their immediate reference when the chart and medication records were not available to them. They might make "offside notes" in a notation part or on their own to pass to the OM the next day who passes it to the Transcriptionist for entry into the formal record. This is a horrible thing that I read up there and I would like to see what they will try next, maybe have lawyers enter data instead of court reporters? Would you want a lawyer or doctor who wasted their education and time entering data? All of these methods are put forward by "middlemen" who see where they can entice the medical profession into "saving a buck." That savings might cost them plenty in the long haul when their documentation is in questionable shape. If they use it they better be ready for plenty of trouble and humiliation when their "second class documentation" is available for public review to say nothing of the compromise in patient care.
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