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Reduce after-clinic work with these practical tips

Mobius MD

Order necessary labs or imaging in advance when you schedule a patient for their next visit. For example, patients should be able to easily schedule and re-schedule appointments online or through an app without any involvement from clinic staff. Try writing your “why” somewhere you’ll see it in the mornings before work.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

Most older patients who had a telehealth visit perceived the quality of an office visit was higher (56%) and offered better communication opportunity with the clinician (54%). These included: A clinician’s lack of ability to conduct a physical exam (75% of older people concerned about this).

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What It’s Like to Work as a Podiatrist’s Medical Assistant

Prism Career Institute

Regarding administrative work, podiatrist’s assistants often oversee ordering, organizing, and storing supplies, restocking exam rooms, setting up instruments, and sterilizing equipment.

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Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable – A Medical Student’s Perspective

Sensible Medicine

” I feel uncomfortable that the systems-level challenges my patients face – impossible scheduling dilemmas, fights over insurance coverage, and the innumerable other barriers to high-quality, accessible, equitable healthcare – seem out of my control.

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Friday Reflection 27: The Poor Historian

Sensible Medicine

Often, the inability of a doctor to obtain a history is actually a physical exam finding – an extremely non-specific finding, but a finding nonetheless. Not only do we use language to communicate, we also use language to think. Patients exaggerate the symptoms of their sinus infection to get an antibiotic prescription.

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Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Sensible Medicine

1] I want to take physics over the summer to free up time in my schedule. After taking his history and doing his physical exam, I recommended HIV testing. Even though this patient would barely speak with me, she found a way to communicate with him. Should I do research this summer or get a job? [1]