You trust your staff.  And you should, ... to a point.

There is a lot of trust that is needed in an office setting, otherwise, you would have to watch over everything that was done, by everyone. That simply can't be done effectively, nor should it.

But there are still items that your staff simply should not have access to. It's not that hard to take control over various items in the office that can get you into trouble. Yes, get YOU in trouble.  Often these items can be controlled through your EMR program and effective policies, procedures, job descriptions, employee handbooks ... and fair, yet effective disciplinary actions for violation of those policies.  

So what are these items?  In an article in Physician Practice, the author Ericka Adler, mentions various "at-risk" items such as...

• Unrestricted employee access to medical records
• Employee's ability to write orders for their own use (i.e. lab tests)
• And amazingly... employees...