Re: Documentation Ink question

[Guest guest]

Amen! I couldn't agree more Dave. We've been culturally programmed by the

mind mush media and their controllers to be " obedient workers " (google

Carlin American Dream - I won't post the link here because it

contains obscenity). If you want to know where this mindset is ultimately

heading, this excerpt describes this process in a more powerful way than I

ever could.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

If anyone can read this article and not think we're already headed down this

path, let me know and I can give you a few references to initiate your

education process. We obliging follow each and every rule, never

questioning them, like donkeys endlessly chasing the carrot that's dangled

in front of our noses, so pre-occupied with following the letter of the

unending and growing cascade of newer, stricter, and more suffocatingly

confining rules that we're too busy to know or do anything about those at

the top who seem curiously exempt from following rules themselves and

utterly immune from prosecution. Have you heard anything lately about Jon

Corzine being prosecuted for his role in the MF Global fiasco? Ask yourself

how many of the criminal actions by JP Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of

America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Stanley, Bear Stearns, Lehman

Brothers, and others in the banking/finance cartel have been prosecuted as

compared to, let's say, the saving and loan debacle of the 1980s? How about

the LIBOR scandal? It's all given lip service but then quietly and

unceremoniously swept under the rug ... until the next outrage comes along

.... and then, rinse and repeat. The financial and corporate power structure

of the world, led by the central bankers and in collusion with the highest

levels of government, is running amuck devastating the obedient and

compliant middle class while we're being told that germs from hot pack

covers will migrate through multiple layers of toweling to penetrate the

skins of poor unsuspecting patients and create hideous infections ... and we

believe it and scramble all over ourselves to comply. Following that logic,

patients should never sit in the chair of a waiting room due to the

infection risk. It's ludicrous but we buy into it. Insanity!

, PT, OCS

Re: Documentation Ink question

>

> Back in the day, only black ink would copy on old-school Xerox copiers,

> hence the rule. Technology evolved, and the rule did not. Until recently,

> that is. Some hospital systems may still require black ink because it's a

> bit cleaner looking when documents are scanned into the electronic medical

> record. My suggestion would be to make a clinic rule and be consistent,

> having a rationale for your decision.

>

> --

> * M. Ball, PT, DPT, PhD, MBA, OCS*

> *Board Certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy*

> *Residency Trained in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy*

> Carolinas Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Faculty

> NorthEast Rehabiltation, Staff Physical Therapist

> cell:

>

>

[Guest guest]

Adressing Marcy's statement, the problem is, this little issue is representative

of the much bigger issues. That's why it provoked such controversy. I wrote my

response prematurely after I read only Dave's comment. In response to your

comment, Tom, I wish I could return to your level of (hopefully) trust-induced

naivete on the issue but, unfortunately or fortunately, years of research and

education on what lies behind this present mess precludes that option. I'm

amazed that an obviously intelligent person such as yourself doesn't see deeper

than the contrived surface appearance of the issue of relentlessly burgeoning

regulation. Appropriate regulation obviously has a lot to do with balance. Too

little ... no good. Too much ... no good. What you don't seem to acknowledge

is that regulations can be (and are often) wielded like a sword, cutting down

anything or anyone that happens to stand in the way of those with the power,

money, and influence to institute those regulations. Case in point ... the

Glass Steagall Act. A perfectly good set of regulations that is partially

" repealed " (with the help of a great deal of palm greasing) to the benefit of

the power interests and to the detriment of the masses. I could write for days

on the subject but people see, hear, and understand only what they want to and

nothing more, so I've learned, why bother. If you're really genuinely

interested in being enlightened rather than and basing your understanding on

facts more than opinions and beliefs, may I recommend a little diversified

reading? Perhaps start with Bernay's " Crystallizing Public Opinion " (a

favorite of ph Goebbels for reasons that will become apparent when you read

it) to " The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the

Western World " by Ian McGilchrist (a foray into the neurophysiological origin of

some of these problems) to " Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In our

Time " by Carroll Quigley, a professor of Bill Clinton's at town (and a

lengthy tome of 1348 pages but pgs. 324 and 950 should be of particular interest

to get you started). I think reading might be a more illuminating path than

ranting and perhaps influence you towards becoming more of an apologist for

truth and righteousness and less of an apologist for overly burdensome and

excessive regulation (and the ominous societal transformations which can all too

easily accompany it).

P.S. Reading " They Thought They Were Free " by Milton Mayer will explain the

latter.

, PT, OCS

Re: Documentation Ink question

>>

>> Back in the day, only black ink would copy on old-school Xerox

> copiers,

>> hence the rule. Technology evolved, and the rule did not. Until

> recently,

>> that is. Some hospital systems may still require black ink because

> it's a

>> bit cleaner looking when documents are scanned into the electronic

> medical

>> record. My suggestion would be to make a clinic rule and be

> consistent,

>> having a rationale for your decision.

>>

>> --

>> * M. Ball, PT, DPT, PhD, MBA, OCS*

>> *Board Certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy*

>> *Residency Trained in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy*

>> Carolinas Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency

> Faculty

>> NorthEast Rehabiltation, Staff Physical Therapist

>> cell:

>>

>>

[Guest guest]

Adressing Marcy's statement, the problem is, this little issue is representative

of the much bigger issues. That's why it provoked such controversy. I wrote my

response prematurely after I read only Dave's comment. In response to your

comment, Tom, I wish I could return to your level of (hopefully) trust-induced

naivete on the issue but, unfortunately or fortunately, years of research and

education on what lies behind this present mess precludes that option. I'm

amazed that an obviously intelligent person such as yourself doesn't see deeper

than the contrived surface appearance of the issue of relentlessly burgeoning

regulation. Appropriate regulation obviously has a lot to do with balance. Too

little ... no good. Too much ... no good. What you don't seem to acknowledge

is that regulations can be (and are often) wielded like a sword, cutting down

anything or anyone that happens to stand in the way of those with the power,

money, and influence to institute those regulations. Case in point ... the

Glass Steagall Act. A perfectly good set of regulations that is partially

" repealed " (with the help of a great deal of palm greasing) to the benefit of

the power interests and to the detriment of the masses. I could write for days

on the subject but people see, hear, and understand only what they want to and

nothing more, so I've learned, why bother. If you're really genuinely

interested in being enlightened rather than and basing your understanding on

facts more than opinions and beliefs, may I recommend a little diversified

reading? Perhaps start with Bernay's " Crystallizing Public Opinion " (a

favorite of ph Goebbels for reasons that will become apparent when you read

it) to " The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the

Western World " by Ian McGilchrist (a foray into the neurophysiological origin of

some of these problems) to " Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In our

Time " by Carroll Quigley, a professor of Bill Clinton's at town (and a

lengthy tome of 1348 pages but pgs. 324 and 950 should be of particular interest

to get you started). I think reading might be a more illuminating path than

ranting and perhaps influence you towards becoming more of an apologist for

truth and righteousness and less of an apologist for overly burdensome and

excessive regulation (and the ominous societal transformations which can all too

easily accompany it).

P.S. Reading " They Thought They Were Free " by Milton Mayer will explain the

latter.

, PT, OCS

Re: Documentation Ink question

>>

>> Back in the day, only black ink would copy on old-school Xerox

> copiers,

>> hence the rule. Technology evolved, and the rule did not. Until

> recently,

>> that is. Some hospital systems may still require black ink because

> it's a

>> bit cleaner looking when documents are scanned into the electronic

> medical

>> record. My suggestion would be to make a clinic rule and be

> consistent,

>> having a rationale for your decision.

>>

>> --

>> * M. Ball, PT, DPT, PhD, MBA, OCS*

>> *Board Certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy*

>> *Residency Trained in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy*

>> Carolinas Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency

> Faculty

>> NorthEast Rehabiltation, Staff Physical Therapist

>> cell:

>>

>>