The Power of the Pen, Part 1 by Shari Welch, MD
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 The Functions of ED Charting Jim Roberts MD, an emergency physician, writer, an entertaining speaker and humorist describes the medical record for an ED visit this way: The medical record serves to produce a permanent document that serves to memorialize all the details of a stressful encounter between a group of strangers, some of whom have to prove that they did everything possible to assure the best outcome. ...The only way you can get paid. Medicare and Medicaid and BC/BS know more about charting than you do, and they make their own rules! "As any lawyer knows, the ED chart certainly possesses miraculous powers to make them rich beyond their wildest dreams" There is some truth to his observations...by Shari Welch, MD


