lighthearted kevin md

I started transcribing in 1988, a decade before Page and Brin taught us to google. We had word books, two dense columns of terms correctly spelled and hyphenated.

When stumped we'd sometimes call our friend the supply room clerk who would read the names off packages.

Docs didnt spend their lives hunched over the EHR. They saw the patient then dictated their note at dictation station or into a handheld recorder, confident that highly skilled transcriptionists and coders would ensure they received maximum reimbursement for their work.

Dr Gorbaty meshed well with his patients at the Jewish Home for the Aged. I remember the patient fixated on cleaning the walls with his special cleanser {pee}. Dr G had him issued a sprayer bottle of weak soap solution twice a week.

One Christmas Eve he sang his last progress note to the tune of O Tannenbaum.

My work went online in early 1990. Quite a paradigm shift. No more picking up and delivering tapes and hard copy reports. Just log on, download the next job in the queue and have at.

I did some challenging work. Dr Michael Gottlieb established an AIDS unit at Sherman Oaks Hospital. We scrambled to learn drug and lab test names in 1989.



exam revealed anxious orange female.