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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by thomasfedb on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:29PM (#18829291)
FLK isn't a diagnosis, but it is a useful clinical impression that might lead to one, even now.
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by dublin on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:17AM (#18830283)
Frequently, those are code words - for instance, at one hospital system I worked with, "quiet lady" might be used to describe a really slow, stupid woman, since they couldn't put "evidence of low intelligence, mental retardation, or mental instability" in the medical record for fear of legal repercussions...
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by lostlogin on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:51PM (#18829976)
It probably shouldn’t be written like that in notes though.
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