http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/08/hospital-ceos-should-be-vetted-more.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/08/hospital-ceos-should-be-vetted-more.html/comment-page-1#comment-86947 Anonymous Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/08/hospital-ceos-should-be-vetted-more-thoroughly.html#comment-86947 This is an important point: it's amazing how hospital and insurance administrators can exempt themselves from regulatory accountability.<br/>It used to be that if the administration wanted one of my patients discharged, the'd plaster the chart binder w/ vivid stickers, and pester me w/ calls day-and-night. Upon discharge, the stickers were thrown away, leaving no trace of the adminstration's hectoring.<br/>My solution was to peel off the stickers from the front of the chart and glue them into the progress notes, w/ my signature half-on and half-off the sticker.<br/>After I started doing that, they stopped using their blasted stickers. This is an important point: it’s amazing how hospital and insurance administrators can exempt themselves from regulatory accountability.
It used to be that if the administration wanted one of my patients discharged, the’d plaster the chart binder w/ vivid stickers, and pester me w/ calls day-and-night. Upon discharge, the stickers were thrown away, leaving no trace of the adminstration’s hectoring.
My solution was to peel off the stickers from the front of the chart and glue them into the progress notes, w/ my signature half-on and half-off the sticker.
After I started doing that, they stopped using their blasted stickers.

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