When Medical Abbreviations Leave You Annoyed AF
A doctor deciphers the jargon so you can navigate the age of open notes
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6 min readJul 31, 2021
On April 5th, 2021 a federal law titled the 21st Century Cures Act took effect mandating that clinical notes be made available to patients free of charge. While many medical facilities were already in the practice of releasing laboratory and imaging results to…