Have you read a hospital chart carefully?

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34. Nurses can complain, certainly.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Unfortunately, I don't know that they can actually do much otherwise.

Ultimately, the accuracy of a medical record is the responsiblity of the person who wrote or dictated it. Practitioners who dictate medical records are legally liable for reviewing the resulting transcripts for accuracy before signing off on them. Anyone who skips that step is a complete fool.

Those of us who transcribe/edit medical dictations are all too well aware of our responsibility to get them right. Medical transcription has been transformed over the past decade or so from small local companies, independents, and professional in-house staff to corporate drones employed by monstrous entities competing with each other for proprietary software market share. Even so, we are acutely aware of our responsibility for accuracy and have some pretty rigid standards in place.

In the end, however, it comes down to the practitioners who dictated the reports being responsible for their final content. If they're not happy with the work they should let us know, but they should never ever sign off on something inaccurate or substandard.