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Date: 27 February 2008 17:48:17
I am knackered. I was called to court today to give evidence in a Child Protection hearing. I am pretty hacked off about the whole day to be honest. First of all they phoned me on Friday to see if I could go in at 12 noon which was an hour earlier that originally planned. So, I arrived with plenty of time at 11.20am and then I sit there watching the clock, until at 12.50pm they adjourn for lunch. Finally I got called at 2pm and I was on the stand for over two hours.
What has royally pissed me off though is there were two clients involved in the case; one I work with, and one that I previously worked with but who is now worked with by one of my colleagues. I work hard to ensure that my clinical notes are up to date (and spelt right, with the right punctuation etc.) and I try to ensure that every piece of work I produce is professional, particularly things that are going to other professionals. So, what wound me up the most that that the file of the client I was working with was perfect and my reports were accurate. However, the other person's file was a disgrace. Reports were inaccurate, drug screening results were not reported properly, or were missing from the file and the spelling was atrocious. The file is a legal document, surely it is not too much to ask for someone to use a spell-check before submitting an entry? So, I ended up getting grilled on the incompetence of my colleague. Nice.