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Hand Surgeons

Thirty-patient clinic days of carpal tunnels, trigger fingers, and distal radius follow-ups leave no time to type Tinel's signs and ROM degrees. Medical Scribe drafts your consult note — exam measurements, consent discussion, and surgical plan included.

Sample note

What your notes will look like

A real example of the documentation Medical Scribe generates for hand surgeons — ready before your patient leaves the room.

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Subjective

54F, right-hand-dominant administrative assistant, referred with 4 months of numbness and tingling in the right thumb, index, and middle fingers. Wakes at night shaking the hand for relief; increasingly drops small objects. Neutral wrist splint x3 months with partial relief. No neck pain, trauma, or bilateral symptoms. PMH: hypothyroidism on levothyroxine 75mcg daily. No anticoagulants. NKDA. Non-smoker.

Objective

  • Positive Tinel's over the right carpal tunnel; Phalen's positive at 30 seconds
  • Two-point discrimination 7mm at index fingertip, 5mm on ulnar digits
  • Thenar bulk symmetric, no atrophy; full digital ROM
  • Grip strength 22kg right vs 28kg left
  • NCS/EMG 05/2026: moderate right median neuropathy at the wrist; no cervical radiculopathy

Assessment & Plan

Right carpal tunnel syndrome, moderate on electrodiagnostics, refractory to 3 months of splinting. Discussed open carpal tunnel release under local anesthesia: risks reviewed including infection, scar and pillar pain, nerve injury, and incomplete symptom relief; nonoperative alternatives revisited. Patient elects to proceed with surgery.

Additional Notes

  • Scheduled for open CTR, WALANT technique; no medications to hold pre-op
  • Post-op protocol discussed: soft dressing 48 hours, immediate finger ROM, sutures out at 10-14 days
  • Return precautions: fever, spreading redness, drainage, or worsening numbness

Illustrative example. Every note is fully editable, and you control the format — SOAP, DAP, or your own custom template.

Hand surgery clinics move faster than the keyboard

High volume, short slots

A full clinic day of new consults, post-op checks, and injections means dozens of notes — each needing a focused history, exam, and plan before the next patient is roomed.

The exam is all measurements

Two-point discrimination, Tinel's and Phalen's, grip strength, ROM in degrees — granular findings that are tedious to type and dangerous to shortcut.

Consent discussions must survive on paper

Risks, benefits, and alternatives discussed before a carpal tunnel release or ORIF are only defensible if the chart shows the conversation actually happened.

AI-Powered Documentation

Real-time transcription that understands medical terminology and clinical context.

Specialty Vocabulary

Recognizes terms, conditions, and procedures specific to your practice area.

Save Hours Daily

Generate comprehensive clinical notes in minutes instead of hours.

HIPAA Compliant

Enterprise-grade encryption and security to protect sensitive data.

Built-in templates

Note templates built for hand surgeons

These aren't generic formats — they ship in the product today, structured around how you actually document.

Hand Surgeon's Note

Subjective Objective Assessment & Plan

Plus 280+ templates across every specialty — or build your own in minutes.

Made for the rhythm of a hand clinic

New referrals, post-op wound checks, splint reviews, corticosteroid injections — Medical Scribe records each encounter, in clinic or via telehealth, and drafts a note matched to it. A two-minute suture removal gets two lines; a surgical consult gets the full history, exam, and operative discussion. You review and sign before it goes in the chart.

The Hand Surgeon’s Note, section for section

Drafts follow the built-in Hand Surgeon’s Note template: Subjective with presenting complaint, surgical history, and anticoagulant use; Objective with exam findings and investigation results like NCS/EMG; and Assessment & Plan structured per surgical issue — differential, planned procedure, pre-operative preparation, and post-operative care. It is one of 280+ specialty templates, and custom versions take minutes.

Operative decisions, documented as discussed

When a patient later asks what was agreed — or a payer asks why surgery was indicated — the note shows the failed splinting, the electrodiagnostic findings, and the consent discussion in your own words from the visit. Medical Scribe never adds findings or reasoning you didn’t state.

Frequently asked questions

Will it capture exam measurements like grip strength and two-point discrimination?

Yes. Numbers you say aloud during the exam — degrees of motion, kilograms of grip, millimeters of discrimination, Tinel's and Phalen's results — land in the Objective section of the note exactly as stated. Nothing is measured for you, and nothing is invented.

Does it document the informed-consent conversation before surgery?

Yes. The Hand Surgeon's Note template includes patient education and informed consent within its Assessment & Plan structure, so the risks, benefits, and alternatives you discussed — and the patient's decision — are captured in the visit note itself.

Can it keep up with a 30-patient clinic day?

Each visit generates its own draft as soon as the recording ends, whether it was a 10-minute post-op check or a 40-minute new consult. You review and sign between patients or in one batch — no dictation backlog at day's end.

Is patient data secure?

Medical Scribe is HIPAA compliant, with encryption in transit and at rest. Recordings and notes are processed securely, and nothing enters the chart until you have reviewed and signed it.

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