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RheumThoughts: The EHR is Down! $@&#!

The advantage to patient care without the crutch of an EHR. What do you do?

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John A. Goldman, MD

| Jul 04, 2024 2:57 pm

This is good and the way we used to practice before EHR. This is the patient- doctor relationship and is very important especially over the long haul.
there are some patients with long chart data and you need ti factor that in. Rome wasn't born in a year and neither is the patient chart.

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