...or so says #1 Dinosaur, who was buried under a blizzard of radiology reports.
I tend to agree up to a point, but the only problem from my perspective is this: Until recently, it was not at all uncommon for me to get seemingly millions of copies of every radiology report for mammography, ultrasound, and core needle biopsies on my patients. There's a preliminary report, a final report, an amended report, a report with the pathology report added, a report with the pathology report and the estrogen/progesterone receptor status added, and then multiple copies of the final report. We ended up either shredding them or shipping them out through a company hired to take care of the disposal of HIPAA-sensitive patient reports.
Come to think of it, this sort of thing happened a lot with pathology reports, too. Veritable forests of trees must have died to produce all this wasteful duplication of effort.
For every report there are 10 copies of there is another that somehow got "lost".
I know that because it's always mine.
Isn't this sort of thing what electronic records were invented for?
Then god forbid they decide to sue someone; each set of lawyers gets a copy, who then make three to seven copies to send to their experts, plus one copy for each paralegal, one for the court, and by the time the copy girl gets done with all this, the case settles and it all has to get shredded and the shredder can only hold about 300 pages, so it take at least a dozen garbage bags. (I've been there)
Off topic, do you know about this already?
Off topic, do you know about this already?
Thanks for the mention. I too end up with preliminary, final and amended reports. The one I received 10 times was actually something I'd never seen before: a "superceded" report; just a reprint of the report with an addendum discussing the path report -- which I'd also received directly from the lab.
haha! If my mother had the right sense of humor, I'd send this to her, as she's a radiologist.........as her kid (kiddult, I'm 24) , I find this quite amusing....
good one Orac......lol
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