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Sidebar - What Your Signature Says
Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - What Your Signature Says
A hospitalist asked me what he should actually write when he co-signs a physician assistant's chart. Is it safer to say more ("I spoke with the PA, we went over the plan") or to say as little as possible? The answer: neither. The safest signature isn't the longest or the shortest one. It's the true one.
In this Sidebar: why a two-word co-signature is still your signature under Pennsylvania's Medical Practice Act, why saying more than you did is worse (the Texas case where "I agree with the assessment and confirm the diagnosis" kept…
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