Friday, September 26, 2008

8th GRADE MATH

More and more I am seeing both TMB experts and Board members and staff arguing that a doctor’s medical records are deficit because the records fail to provide expressed justification or rationale for medical treatments, labs, consults and testing.

TMB is demanding that doctors justify what you are doing. Your medicine may be right, but if you don’t show the “why” some Board consultants, members and staff will find your records are deficient. I liken this to Eight Grade math. Take 144 ÷ 12 , you know it’s 12. Well in Eight Grade math, the teacher would mark you wrong because you didn’t show your work. If you showed the 144 - 144 = 0 and then you placed the 12 on top that would be right. Same outcome, as before, but this time you demostrated to the teacher how you got there.

Think about this with your medical records.

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