I think most people who work in medical professions can appreciate this one. For medical-legal reasons, health care providers are expected to document everything. Occasionally, during our efforts to help and educate our patients, we’ll forget to record a finding or a test result.
It’s almost never a worrisome finding or a scary risk factor, but usually something that we consider to be a normal variation, something we weren’t very concerned about in the first place.
Still, it bugs me when I realize I’ve done something like this - even if my realization hits me in the middle of the night.
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