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Do you ever wonder if doctor's ever take a quick glance over the patient's chart before they begin dictating? I am not talking about residents who are dictating a large stack of charts, but a doctor who sees the same patients day in and day out in a diabetes clinic. I type for this doctor who will start dictating and have no idea what medications the patient is on, how many units the patient takes, or even how many times a day the patient is to receive insulin. She will name off Levemir continue to hmmm and haahh and throw some numbers out there, get to the assessment and plan and then start off again as if she is in the HPI and change the medication/insulin and change the whole treatment regimen. It is almost as if she has ADD or just does not want to dictate. That can be dangerous, though, if she were to forget to correct herself.