Thanks Bert.
The problem with James' method is that it creates a huge number of PDF's that predictably will be almost useless to the receiving physician. You may have received some of those giant compilations from other practices that closed -- I don't know how James does it, but I have yet to see any kind of index, and I simply give up scrolling through those charts.

Another issue is that we have about 10,000 charts -- but only a about 3000 of them are really active patients, and of those, only a fraction (who knows how many) will actually request records.
So which ones to convert to PDF?

We will have full time help for about a month to tie up loose ends, help patients who claim they didn't know we were about to retire to find a new doctor and transfer records. After that we should have some idea of how to move forward with what I imagine will be a diminishing request for service.

I wilsh I could have found a doctor to take over the practice -- but these days you can't even give away a private practice. No one seems to want this job.

Tom Duncan
Family Practice
Astoria OR