Ten minutes for diagnosis? Really?
Yes, really!
If only we had 90 minutes to perform a diagnostic evaluation, as we did as third-year medical students on hospital rotations.
Or, if we had even 30 minutes for diagnosis, as I recall from internship.
But those days are gone. Today—as clinicians practicing in the age of evidence-based, cost-effective health care—office visits are of much shorter duration than in years past. For example, in a recent study of 4,454 patients seeing 138 physicians in 84 practices, the mean visit duration was 10 minutes
Yes, really!
If only we had 90 minutes to perform a diagnostic evaluation, as we did as third-year medical students on hospital rotations.
Or, if we had even 30 minutes for diagnosis, as I recall from internship.
But those days are gone. Today—as clinicians practicing in the age of evidence-based, cost-effective health care—office visits are of much shorter duration than in years past. For example, in a recent study of 4,454 patients seeing 138 physicians in 84 practices, the mean visit duration was 10 minutes
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