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Health Care Law Blog: A 1930 Medical Record

Posted by GruntDoc on November 20th, 2009

Very cool glimpse into the past:

Health Care Law Blog: A 1930 Medical Record

Here are photos of the medical record of a patient from 1934. The medical record format is simple yet complete.

Today’s medical record takes up pages on pages, and is a giant time-sink when compared with this notation system. Before 3rd party billing (and monkeys with guns) this was all that we needed.

Thanks for sharing, Health Care Law Blog…

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