How do you navigate requests from your employers to see patients for shorter appointment times or less frequently than you feel is clinically indicated?

It takes an hour to get the basic data and an hour to 'really find out what's going on' and to begin to establish some rapport.

As Franz Kafka says in effect in "The Country Doctor," "it is easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people." I agree that the understanding that it takes to make good prescriptions is an ongoing process guided by current knowledge, but (the understanding) for wh...

Yes, once upon a time, analysts routinely scheduled 2 hours for the first session. Though I have done it many times, 50 minutes for interview, history, signs and symptoms, formulation, discussion, and prescription is a start, a partial foundation for further treatment. Gathering collateral informati...