Originally Posted by LTHFAdvocate

Of course we do, but we do it based on chart reviews. That doesn't require that we be in current contact with the patient.

But, your research is based on chart reviews from your own clinic, or that of other medical professionals? Surely, that is updated information?

What makes you think that we have any control whatsoever about what our patients remember? I have come across families (through the appeals program, not at our clinic) where they can't even tell me what brand of implant their child has or when they had their last mapping, much less something that was told to them the week before surgery.

It would not matter what the patient or the family remembers, if it was standard protocol to have documentation of proof of the vaccine prior to ever wheeling that child into the operating room. And whowould be responsible for making certain that documentation was available? The physican directly, his auxillary staff indirectly. But as the auxillary staff function only as an agent of, and under the supervision of the physician, responsibility still falls squarely onthe shoulders of the person holding the knife.

And I don't have the answer to that question, but I would ask you that when they aren't aware, what makes you conclude it's automatically the clinic's fault?