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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

Not only have we shortened medical appointments to 15 minutes. We also sometimes double book them. I get the feeling that non-providers think of this as something fairly ordinary, and even reasonable. Double booking is sometimes used as a strategy to manage no-shows. That can be really bad.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. How should we just universally just treat everybody? Mariah 23:02 Right.