Using your critical-thinking skills, play the role of an administrative medical assistant as you answer each question.1) You are
going through a patient’s medical record to find information on a specific lab report, and you notice that several chart notes are not dated. What should you do?2) You retrieve a patient’s medical record and notice that the abbreviation WDWNYM is used several times in the chart notes. You know that this is not an approved abbreviation, though you eventually figure out that it stands for "well-developed, well-nourished young male." What do you do with this information?3) A former patient calls, hoping to locate x-rays taken more than 5 years ago. What should you say?4) A patient calls and is moving out of town. She is concerned about her medical record. What would you suggest?5) You are transcribing the physician’s. dictation and cannot understand several words in a chart note. What do you do?
