She said, "You need to find a different outlet for your writing."

I have found note-writing to be, at best, an onerous task, one that I'm afraid I'm going to have to learn how to like.  Given today's medical-legal documentation standards and necessities, there's no escaping it.  And there's no escaping that I need to become faster at it. 


I don't like to leave a shoddy note in a patient's record and tend to review and rewrite portions of it before submitting the final version.  I discussed this recently with one of my family medicine attendings in clinic, and she smiled and told me, "You prose writers will simply have to find a different outlet for your writing."  


Hence ... my return to blogging.  Let's see if this time around it sticks a bit better than before!  Now that I have a few weeks of residency under my belt, I have plenty of interesting fodder to share and reflect upon.  I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I have enjoyed experiencing them. 


But, for now, it's time to sign off ... a few patient notes are waiting to be finished.