--- In cancerregistrargroup@yahoogroups.com, "Lorene" <lrn1vjn2@...>
wrote:
>
> I have been in the medical field for over 30 years, with 20+ specific
> to Cancer Registry. Maybe I am just getting old and want to retire,
> but I am so frustrated with all the changes that keep coming up. Life
> was so simple with the D A M Manual, I agreed it had to change, but
> with every new CEO of the standard setters such as ACoS and SEER and
> NAACCR, they throw out what was working well to come up with their
own,
> great new plan. Then we get screw__. The newest release of the
> Collaborative Staging System seems to have just about pushed me over
> the edge. I don't even enjoy my job much anymore. It doesn't seem
> that there is any way the data can be meaningful or valid at all. I am
> also concerned about the quality. I see so many people working in the
> field who are unqualified. The data is dirty and there is very little
> we can do about it. With some hospitals giving "quota's" to meet, that
> compromises the quality of the data even more. They are going to do it
> fast and dirty just to meet the quota, afraid of getting written up.
> What happened to integrity and standing up to what you know is right?
> Where does this madness end.
>
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. IT'S TIME SO ONE SAID SO.


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