• the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Ok but how come i have to fill out that paper every time i come in? I’ve been to the same clinic over and over. Do they just throw my information away? Is it busywork to buy them time? I know it’s a minor quibble but fucking hell

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      8 months ago

      Your guesses might be right, but most likely you are talking about the questionnaires about your medical history and what’s called the “review of systems”.

      In the US, medicare and most other insurances require those questions be asked every visit, however stupid that feels. Since your doctor may only get 10 minutes face to face with you, most of us will have an assistant or a paper ask those questions, so that we can say it was done but still have as much time as possible to talk about the more meaningful stuff.

      Some places do it better than others. Usually, though, the form is hard to follow and photocopied to the point of total illegibility.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Eh, review of systems is good practice for any non-followup encounter anyway. It’d be nice if they actually paid RNs to do an abbreviated head to toe on non-followup visits just to catch random strays.