Re:It's Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was ...
by HelloMcFly on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @09:28AM
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Doctors that I know don't necessarily mind carry forward notes if it is in a standard template, and it's been reviewed for accuracy. The doctors I know rightly hate when trainees (or occasionally but rarely other attendings) do either of these:
1. Carry forward non-templated notes that reuses another physician's prose with zero or near-zero updates as it invites mis-interpretation from colleagues.
2. Carry forward templated or non-templated information that clearly hasn't been reviewed, best indicated by signatures/names of physicians that had nothing to do with the note as in this article or dates that are clearly wrong.
And it's doubly-bad when it's non-templated notes with incorrect physician names and/or dates.
1. Carry forward non-templated notes that reuses another physician's prose with zero or near-zero updates as it invites mis-interpretation from colleagues.
2. Carry forward templated or non-templated information that clearly hasn't been reviewed, best indicated by signatures/names of physicians that had nothing to do with the note as in this article or dates that are clearly wrong.
And it's doubly-bad when it's non-templated notes with incorrect physician names and/or dates.