I used to print out all my notes also until I realized it was silly. Once I was comfortable with my back up plan I bit the bullet. All new patients had nothing but electronic records. Established patients were scanned in a scientific manner....the thin charts were done first, then the thicker charts of younger patients were done in entirety, then the thicker charts of older patients were done selectively...only the last two years of labs, consults, xrays, etc. Their encounter notes were already in AC. This discrimination left me with less than one rack of paper charts. I disposed of three other racks of charts. I cannot remember the last time I pulled a paper chart. I also finish my notes in the room, in front of the patient.

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. "