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To: Potowmack
By filling in a false answer, that physician already violated ethical and legal rules regarding accuracy in medical records.

Which is why even incorrect medical entries are assumed to be correct.

119 posted on 02/23/2006 10:43:43 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Which is why even incorrect medical entries are assumed to be correct.

Worked with an nurses aid once, who had figured out that the corollary to, "if you didn't chart it, you didn't do it," was "if I chart it, then I did do it."

Not sure how long it had gone on, but it was probably quite a while. The downfall was the dead patient at breakfast time, who supposedly was 'warm dry, and comfortable' and had a perfectly normal set of vital signs recorded less than 2 hours before, yet had been dead for several hours.

No telling whose, or how many other, records were screwed up, nor to what extent, and that was just ONE person.

Other than losing their job & certification, I don't know what, if anything, came of it.

137 posted on 02/23/2006 2:43:52 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mohamophages of the world, unite!)
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