It’s a knee-jerk default discharge phrase. It’s a catchall punt of responsibility and liability. And dear colleagues, we need you to think twice before ever saying it again, says Dr. Adam Stewart.
A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.
'We (doctors) are now at risk of not “hearing” our patients’ stories. I am in the process of trialling Mutuo speech recognition. It transcribes the patient-clinician interaction, using machine learning.'