![]() He was also told to amend the records to include notes concerning degrees of progress related to specified goals. Thereafter Armond directed Nuwer to correct the treatment records for his therapy clients for the period of September through November 1996, to bring those records into compliance with company standards, including the new charting policy. In early December, Nuwer and two fellow employees attended a workshop conducted by Mariner, where they were instructed how to implement the new policy discussed at the workshop. In November Whitney Armond, Nuwer's supervisor warned him that the Quality Audit Department had found “serious neglect” of Nuwer's compliance with company standards regarding his documentation of clients' charts. Mariner, in an attempt to comply with Medicare guidelines, implemented a policy requiring physical therapists to write “weekly summaries” in clients' charts instead of “daily notes.” In August 1996 Nuwer attended a seminar sponsored by Mariner addressing, among other topics, proper documentation in medical records. ![]() Nuwer worked as a physical therapist and an off-site manager. We refer to the defendants collectively as Mariner, the parent company, and although Mariner never directly employed Nuwer, for convenience we refer to Mariner as his employer. Corporate mergers and acquisitions 1 resulted in Nuwer being employed since 1995 by a subsidiary of Mariner Post-Acute Network, Inc. Nuwer appeals we affirm.ĭavid Nuwer began working as a physical therapist for Gulf Coast Physical Therapy in 1979. The district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment on all claims. Richard Wayne Sliman (argued), Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Gulfport, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.ĭavid Charles Nuwer filed suit against his former employer and related corporations, seeking damages for breach of his employment contract, wrongful termination, violation of his due process rights relative to termination of his employment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Young (argued), Meadows, Riley, Koenenn & Teel, Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Decided: May 27, 2003īefore SMITH and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge *. MARINER POST-ACUTE NETWORK, Formerly Living Centers of America, Parent Company of Rehability Health Services, Inc., American Therapy Services, and American Rehability Services, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. I installed TeTeX through Fink.United States Court of Appeals,Fifth Circuit.ĭavid Charles NUWER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The TeTeX engine, which renders the code you produce, can be downloaded as per instructions on that site. It's worth it, once there you won't look back. Yes, LaTeX does have a learning curve, but with the fabulous programs available for OS X it is very easy to use. TeXShop is a Cocoa app, which can use any and all OS X spellchecking systems, e.g I use CocoaSpell which is syntax aware. If necessary, word and character count can be done from the CLI. You can set all parameters you need, including some you don't need, example for A4: Choosing different templates in TeXShop is as good as stylesheets. LaTeX is a typesetting language, you can position everything you want, add packages as you see fit, make a template, write stuff and then apply it. When I used Windows 98, I'd have to reinstall every month anyway, so it worked out well for me.Ĭlick to expand.- Mac OS X native (no OS9, no X11) There is also a downloadable Trial, which you can use for 30 days. (not really, but.) It also has "Reveal Codes" which allows you to view and edit the xml codes which make up the document, so you can get rid of superfulous formatting. It makes Word look like MemoPad on a Palm Pilot. ![]() WRT Word Processors, I've used WordPerfect 5.1, 6.0, 7.1, 8.0 and 10 for DOS, Windows, Linux and Java and consider it the only WordProcessor to use. ![]() I wouldn't recommend Doctype for the average person, but if you want a well structured document, with consistant Styling and Layout, you cannot go past DocType. I wrote an essay on Alternative Desktop Interfaces about 5 years ago using DocType, formatted as PDF, with Images from GIMP. You then use the Doctype formatting tools, and a stylesheet, to convert it to LaTeX (and TeX), HTML, PostScript, PDF or even Troff. This is a Document Markup Language, similar to HTML, but less formatting, more plain markup.
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