The Picard ManeuverHow many other businesses would we be fine with operating like this?
ranossOur patient visits are set as 15 minute slots standard.
This isn’t enough time to practice good medicine for anything much more than something like a flu or strep throat. How does one squeeze in an entire rooming process followed by a solid HPI, physical, poc testing and then plan review with pt in 15 minutes?
They don’t.
But with how medicine works (in the US) it’s the how clinics make enough money to stay open.
I think this is a cross-disciplinary issue.
My last optometrist appointment was wicked fast. Eye test speed run. I think it took 15 minutes for the examination and the optometrist was using the time it took for a patient’s pupils to dilate in response to those horrid drops to do the initial exam on another patient, so they always had two patients “being seen” at a given time.
Buck wild. Seems like a bad trend for quality care.
Agreed.
There’s an argument that more appointment slots means more access but if it’s access to poor quality medicine what’s the point?