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Record and Code Systems

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Recently a family practice resident returned from a twomonth rural preceptorship and his evaluation of the physician and his practice was as follows: “I had the opportunity to see a lot of patients, observe a plethora of pathology, and do a lot of family practice you don’t see in a city, but the way he ran his office and his medical record system was mayhem.” The resident was saying, in effect, “The practice was running the physician, rather than the physician running the practice.”

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D.

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Smith, H.T. (1978). Record and Code Systems. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3999-2_77

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