Personally, I am more impressed by someone who sends me a complete note, letting me know that they have indeed recorded that the patient is diabetic or has a family history of colon polyps or is taking lithium rather than just an abbreviated SOAP note. I do not, however, need a formally dictated consultation.

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. "