Bert, I'm not sure I remember exactly. When we started with AC, all of us seemed to have a painfully prepared note just sort of magically disappear. Maybe it was in the deleted items box and we forgot to look. My guess is it went like this:

1) make chart note
2) save to yourself
3) pull chart
4) hit red "X" before editing the chart
5) POOF... it is gone

Nowadays I know to look in deleted items, but I swear at the beginning there were times I could not find it anywhere, and others in the practice still have charts lost forever. I have self trained to save to myself at every little break in the action, just like I "cntrl-S" with Word every paragraph or so, as a holdover from the days when if you didn't you were seriously hosed. I am close enough to starting that I remember how overwhelming everything was, and how panicky it was to not know where my work suddenly went. As I said, it may not have been lost, but there were plenty of times I just did not know where it was. I could have used more help from the software.



David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands