(A parody for medical professionals)
Not a chart note to be seen
A kingdom of busy scanners
And it looks like I'm the queen
The scanner's whirling
Like the patient flow aside
Couldn't let them sit,
Heaven knows I tried
Don't let them go. The docs must see
Keep the old charts and always leave them be
Just scan, don't sort, don't let them go!
Well, there they go!
Let them go. Let them go.
Can't hold 'em back anymore.
Let them go. Let them go.
Take away and close the door.
I don't care
that they're going away.
Let the charts move on.
The space never bothered me anyway.
It's funny how this project
Was anything but small
And the work that once controlled me
Can't burden me at all!
It's time to look
For things to do,
To sing and dance
The whole day through!
No lists,
No pulls
No cuts for me!
I'm free!
Let them go. Let them go.
It's paperless by and by.
Let them go. Let them go.
Just watch that scanner fly!
Here I stand,
And here I scan
Let them all move on.
I scan in mighty speed
All notes that can be found
My head is whirling
And seeing paper all around!
And even though now more used paper's
Shred and cast,
They're never coming back,
The past is in the past!
Let them go. Let them go,
And the work, it will build on
Let them go. Let them go.
The perfect system's gone!
Here I stand
As I rule the day!
Let the charts move on!
The space never bothered me anyway.
Commentary:
This is not a new creation. I've had it in the archives for some time and it's recently resurfaced. It was originally written back in 2015 after completing a major project with transferring medical chart notes from paper to electronic. Someone challenged me to write something up about it, and for some strange reason "Let it Go" popped into my head and immediately I got to working on it. I think it only took me maybe an hour or so after getting the idea. I shared it with the others I worked with and they demanded I sing it for them, which eventually happened, but not until the end of the year at the Christmas party. I sang it there and many asked for copies of the song (one even told me I needed to record it). By the time I got to sharing it around, I'm not sure they were still interested in it, but I made sure I kept a recording of myself singing it.
This was so fun to do and is a great example of what happens to me when my sense of humor collides with my writing. Not sure anyone is interested, but I do have a link to the audio recording of this. The link is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZrffjunKsWLlIV23JiYRdxNAXB468FE1/view?usp=sharing
Another side note: this isn't Idina Menzel quality, so it that's what you're wanting, you'll be greatly disappointed.
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