Medication reconciliation

More bureaucratic idiocy invading the emergency room:

* We are required to write down precisely what the patient tells us, even if we know it is the wrong dosage! If the patient says they take 25 mg of Ativan every four hours, we have to write “Ativan, 25 mg” on the reconciliation form.

* If the patient hands us a list of their medications and instead of “Furosemide”, they have written “Furobedide” we have to write it exactly as it is printed on the list!

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