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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by novia on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:18AM (#18830567)
Half the goal of note taking is not writing down anything that will implicate you in a future legal battle.
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by web007 on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:47PM (#18885247)
This statement is very accurate.

The article has an example of the opposite, but equally important oddness of liability. If you don't mark down "XYZ thing is normal" then someone will come back to complain that you didn't find a problem with XYZ when examining them 27 years ago.

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