I had two of my charts scrutinized on Friday. They euphemistically call this a UR review (utilization review). Hey, maybe that's the correct word--is the clinician using the chart properly. Anyway, when the charts were returned to me the supervisor said something like, "you know you're 16 weeks behind in group notes in one chart and 14 in the the other." I just sort of looked at him and said "ok." He laughed (which he rarely does) and said "I'd be going crazy if I found that out." My response was, "piece of cake." Sure we've been granted a leeway of 2 weeks on group notes but if I try to keep up that closely then all the other priorities fall through and I've been told pretty much everything is more important. Of course none of this has anything to do with actual contact with the patient, which seems to be a recurring theme around here. Maybe I should just start looking at patients as if they ARE charts. See how my chart is progressing. What needs to be worked on? Hmmmm. I'll let you know how that works.