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Why Wendy took notes about their Session in the first place?

posted 8 years ago by Dr_Sagan
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Why Wendy took notes about their Session in the first place?
That was totally unrealistic.
It was so difficult to remember these specifics?
Isn't he, Bobby her most important patient/client? Did she really needed that?

And just writing single incriminating words in their laptop?

That was idiotic and unrealistic. She didn't had to do that.

Of course Wendy it's just a character in a TV show and not an actual person, but it is bad writing to base a major plot arc to that unrealistic element.

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[–] roxrule 8 years ago

Yes, why would a doctor of any type take notes???
That would be absolutely ridiculous. There is no need because all doctors have eidetic memories. Why waste all that paper or processing power. It's totally out of the realm to think that she would take session notes, what bad writing...

Forget that she should have more than one password or should have more common sense than to leave her information accessible to her husband who is Axe's arch enemy. If she just never took those unrealistic notes none of this would have happened...

Sagan would be so proud! And he never took notes. I'm sure of it....

OP's GOT to be a troll.

[–] Dr_Sagan 8 years ago

First of all my friend I AM a Doctor of Medicine. (I wrote it and erased it from my post because I thought my point was pretty clear.)

I ALWAYS remember my important patients even after years and changing practices or Hospitals.

I thought I was pretty clear in my post that Axe isn't JUST a patient, someone who walked into her practice and never met before, so she had to take notes. And that session wasn't a simple session. You don't need eidetic memory. Just a brain that weighs more than 50 grams.

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[–] roxrule 8 years ago

Yea, right.

And I'm the Surgeon General.

I'm glad your practice allows you to post inane comments to the IMDB board in the middle of the day.

Please let me know what state you practice in so I know not to go there.

Do you realize how goofy you look, Doc?

[–] Dr_Sagan 8 years ago

Yea, right.

And I'm the Surgeon General.

I'm glad your practice allows you to post inane comments to the IMDB board in the middle of the day.

Please let me know what state you practice in so I know not to go there.

Do you realize how goofy you look, Doc?

Why the personal insults?
I'm putting you to my ignore list and get on with it.

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[–] dirkpittnco 8 years ago

From the AMA's Medical Records and Documentation Standards:

We require you to:

Keep a unique, individual record for each patient
Establish an organized record-keeping system to ensure that medical records are easily retrievable for review and available for use when needed, including at each patient visit
Store and maintain medical records in a centralized and secured location accessible only to authorized personnel and provide equivalent security for electronic medical records
Maintain and organize documents within medical records in a specified order
Ensure that documents are fastened securely within a paper medical record
Provide periodic training in confidentiality and security for patient information.

Etc, etc, etc.

You do quite a good job of embarrassing yourself.

Life's tough. It's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne.

[–] Dr_Sagan 8 years ago

You do quite a good job of embarrassing yourself.

*SIGH* Another Idiot to put in my Ignore list.

Why is soooooo Difficult to understand, that Axe isn't the "average" patient and these words "bribery" and whatever weren't a proper medical record and have NOTHING to do with any medical condition.

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[–] roxrule 8 years ago

Hey Dirk, how will we survive being on ignore? I don't think I can bear it! 😁

[–] DendelionBlu 8 years ago

You think some of your patients are important and therefore others are less?

That's literally terrible

This isn't about having a brain

This is about ethics

Where's yours?

Wendy was being diligent for taking notes

[–] DendelionBlu 8 years ago

Uh also did you take the Hippocrathic oath?

Remember the part that goes "And some of my patients are going to be important, whereas I shall help the others where I see fit and when I have some free time..."

Oh, wait

[–] Dr_Sagan 8 years ago

As I was saying before a pitiful troll barged in...
It is totally unrealistic for Wendy to write notes about someone so close to her. Her boss for many years.
And the notes were just simple words in a text file.
Not even a proper EMR.

Cosmos hates Google.

[–] ShaeBlue 8 years ago

1. Not sure what it is about this board, but it is infected with rudeness.
2. I always take notes in my job because I work with so many different types of people that I could never remember what happened if I didn't.
3. Axe is close to her but still she might want to keep track of the exact dates that she discussed things with him for reference

[–] Dr_Sagan 8 years ago

1. Not sure what it is about this board, but it is infected with rudeness.
2. I always take notes in my job because I work with so many different types of people that I could never remember what happened if I didn't.
3. Axe is close to her but still she might want to keep track of the exact dates that she discussed things with him for reference

1. We agree.
2. I also agree on "I work with so many different types of people that I could never remember" but this, as you are mentioning on (3) doesn't apply to her boss and friend for 15 or whatever years.

3. In the end I could accept that. I rewatched that part of the 11th episode and she actually wrote more than I remembered titled "Night Session Notes - Axe". Notes though not a proper Medical Record (with Name, age, gender, cause of visit, Dx, DDx, Tx etc), as the rude idiot before you was too hasty to copy/paste from AMA or whatever Google threw at his face as first result in his search.

Anyway for me this is another clue that "Billions" has the premise of a Soap Opera more than a proper drama.

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[–] sokeyt 8 years ago

It is hardly unreasonable that Wendy would make notes after any session with any of her "patients".

Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.