Fax machines represent medical waste, error, and expense

In a scene from the 1999 cult classic “Office Space,” three burned-out cubicle drones take a baseball bat to a malfunctioning printer.  While I do not condone violence against innocent peripheral hardware, I admit I secretly fantasize about destroying medical center fax machines.

Recently, a chronically non-compliant end stage kidney disease patient on dialysis was admitted for minimally elevated troponins and non-ST segment EKG changes in the setting of a hypertensive …

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