Tamara E. Jackson is a physician assistant.
What is it about the documentation of patient encounters that is so aggravating? I was ecstatic to be part of the generation that entered the computer age in medicine. The first day I opened a chart on a pull-down menu within a pixelated screen I felt like I was ushering in the future. We would be able to mine charts for clinical gold!
As a clinician, I value the …
She was dead when we walked in the room. Lungs ventilated, kidneys dialyzed, on pressors to maintain enough tension within her blood vessels to keep blood traveling to her brain and with a tentatively beating heart, but dead, nonetheless. The microbes had done their damage. Necrotic fingertips and toes curling and black, contractures sharply flexing her wrists and ankles from edematous compartments, damage to organs both known and yet to …
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