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I use to be a medical records tech at a decent size hospital. I had to put together and organize hundreds of charts every night. It always amazed me how the nurses and doctors there treated the charts. I spent many a night harrassing nurses trying to find missing charts and missing papers. It was insane. Some nurses even thought they could hide charts from me that they weren't finished with after the patient went home and get away with it. One doctor even took 12 charts home with him once and let his kid color on them with crayons!! (he got in LOADS of trouble once my boss found out too) So many of them didn't seem to get how important it was for us to have charts on hand when a patient left the hospital because if they came back to the ER, the ER *had* to have their chart. They didn't realize someone's life could be in danger if they hid charts from me and the patient showed back up and a doctor needed to know their allergies. You would think that after having me fuss at them for it a dozen times, they'd get it, but I was just a lowly medical records tech and not worth listening to apparently.