chartamnesia
/ˌtʃɑːtæmˈniːʒə/nounVerified NewThe institutional forgetting in which each new clinician encounters a patient's file as if it were new, repeating tests and questions already answered.
The bloods exist; the scan exists; the story has been told four times. Yet every handover starts from zero, and the patient becomes the only continuous memory in the system. Chartamnesia is what fragmentation of care feels like from the bed, not the chart.
Etym. — chart + amnesia — the record's forgetting, on the -nesia family.
Rel. — portalclerk
Novelty check: NEW · checked 2026-11-08
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