I agree with the notion of having a report that actually sounds like you dictated it. I hate the programs that go something like..."diarrhea, no, nausea, no, dysuria, yes...". The longer I use AC the more I find I can do a little here and a little there to improve the output from it. For example, I actually have 4 different follow up HTN templates and 4 follow up Diabetes templates. Basically in the end they all say the same thing but the vernacular and sentence structures are all a little different. So, if I am seeing a patient often for the same problem I just rotate the templates. When you send or copy or audit the chart it then does not look quite as "boilerplate".

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "