Title: Assignment 6 - Writing an email
Course: PHT 2931 Trends in Physical Therapy > Section: Module 5

Imagine that you are working in a hospital setting and you have been assured that any emails you send to any hospital-based physicians are secure.  Your supervising PT has asked you to verify a patient’s weight-bearing status with Dr. Thadeus Bonebraker, MD, an orthopedic surgeon based in the hospital. There is documentation in the chart of PWB, but the percentage is illegible.

The patient’s name is Ernest Payne and his diagnosis is that of a right tibial plateau fracture sustained on May 6, 2010.  Sending the physician an email is helpful, because when he replies, you will have a written record of what his reply is.  The reply can be printed out and put in the paper chart, if there is one, or saved in the computer if there is not.

Write me a note as if I were Dr. Bonebraker and you want to verify the weight-bearing status of the patient.  You may use any format you wish, but I sometimes find the following format helpful:
To:
From:
Re:
Patient’s Diagnosis:  (or Date of Injury or other identifying information)

This assignment is worth 50 points.