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Personal attack in progress note from physician

Has anyone ever heard of a physician writing a criticism towards a nurse in a progress note? Are they not taught this is a legal record in med school? Of course, the doc got away with this immaturity. I keep thinking if this ever went to court........

What would you do?:confused:

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    A doctor who would do that would only have succeeded in ensuring that there is now a permanent record of him behaving like the backside of a horse for all eternity. :) Really, even most medical colleagues look askance at that cr*p.

    If it happened to me I would take it up the chain of command, but not because I was worried about my reputation. The doc apparently lacks clue one about the professional way to address his grievances, and he might have a real one someday.

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    Hopefully, if you take it up the chain of command, someone from Risk Management will get involved, or maybe the hospital's attorney.

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    Once we had a Doctor write in 3 inch high marker "If the nurses had done their job the patient wouldn't be so critical!" in a progress note. Of course our unit went nuts! DON and CMD just about eviscerated him... Plus, he tried to hide it by throwing the note away later, but the Charge Nurse had already copied it... it was pretty close to Christmas and he sent an enormous gift basket to the day, night and weekend shifts.

    He was forgiven eventually.

    Most EHR/EMR's still show deleted notes in all there glory, so I hope people will be forced to be more professional.

    And was the md severely reprimanded for attempting to falsify evidence by throwing away a legal document??

    Probably not.

    :nono:

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