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How do you navigate requests from your employers to see patients for shorter appointment times or less frequently than you feel is clinically indicated?
What strategies have you found effective in advocating for clinically appropriate visit lengths or frequency? How do you balance productivity pressures with maintaining quality of care and meeting patients’ needs? Are there particular communication approaches or documentation practices that help in these situations?
Answer from: at Community Practice
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...
Employers don't usually know about the appointment...
Agree with you! It’s very hard and time-cons...