In a message dated 10/20/99 10:05:59 AM Central Daylight Time, fredorkim@email.msn.com writes: << Thank you for this explanation. I found it very helpful, and also very interesting as I am a nurse. Great input! Kim Ewers >> Kim, My understanding is that doctors aren't much better today with the paperwork.....that is why they have staff persons to do that....(LOL) Of course now everything is aimed at "documentation"...over and over over. Much different world than then. Most nurses and medical personnel have a hard time speaking or writing plain English what with all the acronyms fot this or that. I have been married to an R.N.----paperwork by the trainload compared to yesteryear. Bill McCarty Bill McCarty