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DB rants about the need of a history. Good for him. Some docs don’t take one.
He ers in saying you can get it from the chart. I review dozens of charts daily and find several versions of the history by the various ancillary personel, often with glaring contradictions are omissions.
The physician has skills for gathering history that the army of form fillers does not and it is important that the doc not only HAVE the history but actually TAKE the history.
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