Bert-
I am very sorry that Chris Conrad has left us and that Harris doesn't seem to to be at all interested in what AC users think or need -- but it comes as no surprise.
This Friday will be my last day as a physician. The office will close, and I will have to figure out
how to keep access to the last 10 years of office records for seven years. I am assuming that AC will continue to work when I stop paying the annual fee -- I just won't be able to e-prscribe meds or add new data to to the chart, but I should be able to read the records and pass them on to my patients new physicians. At least, that is what I hope, otherwise I don't know how I'm going to be a record custodian.
I feel the same way about AC as I do about medicine as a profession -- it has been taken over by non-medical "managers" and administrators and private equity funds and is a very different landscape from the one I entered in 1971. People haven't really changed, but the way they are "managed" certainly has. AmazingCharts fit nicely into the old cottage industry, private practice model -- but since that no longer exists, and has been overtaken by a corporate industrial model, and there is no place for AC except in a museum.
The only road to sanity goes forward into the unknown. You can't go home again.
I am looking forward to retirement and will be curious to see if I can adapt to new circumstances and expectations -- I have always believed I was adaptable, but now the rubber meets the road, and we will see.
