I am totally fine with being careful. Spend more time explaining. Talk and communicate more with patients.
What I DO find a non value added work is having to document all that! Write down everything I said and heard in computer in text form.
I mean you have to do it all over again? Write it down? The more you explain the more charting has to be done? Not documented means not done?
Patients dont give a shit about what you document or dont document. They bother more with what say to them how much you explain to them in person.
The documentation bit is tedious takes me away from time to spend with patients is merely writing down things I say to each patient very often and repetitive. But if I dont write it the laws says I never said or did anything.
Here's where I think medicine should go. All doctors wear body cams. Records entire consult. Everything said and heard. Everything done and not done. Examined or not examined.
In a video file. Protected digitally with same passwords and security as pdf or text files.
No more having to chart. For convenience for reference of previous consults we can send the video files to a medical transcript to chart for us a summary of salient points in examination and history. No need to chart all the I have warned patient of risk etc which no doctor ever reviews when trying to understand the disease course and history but is merely there for medical legal purposes.
It will benefit all. Drs have to be careful what they say patients too. Patients cannot anyhow curse doctor also. Bad behaviors from both sides will be recorded.
Legal disputes would no longer be you said I said. Everyone just watches to video to see what exactly was said and happened.
Video files protected are just the same as any other file protected. All confidential and monitored who accessed etc.
I am seriously thinking of developing a system for this and sell to the medical malpractice companies.
What I DO find a non value added work is having to document all that! Write down everything I said and heard in computer in text form.
I mean you have to do it all over again? Write it down? The more you explain the more charting has to be done? Not documented means not done?
Patients dont give a shit about what you document or dont document. They bother more with what say to them how much you explain to them in person.
The documentation bit is tedious takes me away from time to spend with patients is merely writing down things I say to each patient very often and repetitive. But if I dont write it the laws says I never said or did anything.
Here's where I think medicine should go. All doctors wear body cams. Records entire consult. Everything said and heard. Everything done and not done. Examined or not examined.
In a video file. Protected digitally with same passwords and security as pdf or text files.
No more having to chart. For convenience for reference of previous consults we can send the video files to a medical transcript to chart for us a summary of salient points in examination and history. No need to chart all the I have warned patient of risk etc which no doctor ever reviews when trying to understand the disease course and history but is merely there for medical legal purposes.
It will benefit all. Drs have to be careful what they say patients too. Patients cannot anyhow curse doctor also. Bad behaviors from both sides will be recorded.
Legal disputes would no longer be you said I said. Everyone just watches to video to see what exactly was said and happened.
Video files protected are just the same as any other file protected. All confidential and monitored who accessed etc.
I am seriously thinking of developing a system for this and sell to the medical malpractice companies.
