Is all this REALLY necessary?

Mark took 3 of the children to the dentist last week for check-ups for them and himself. (Our family's too big now to go together, so they split us up- my turn comes next week- joy joy.) He came home with a packet of papers to fill out for each 'patient'- gee thanks! :) While waiting for pictures to load on my last post, I worked on filling out this dental paper-work. Signing all the signatures and filling out all the required data took longer than it did to close on our house. I know everything has a 'purpose' but it this really necessary??? ...sorry-- had to write a quick complaint--- it's out of my system now :) SURE hope I don't have to do it again on our next visit- it'll probably be worse by then. :O