Prepare yourself to feel bad medicals. Doctors enter medicine with the hope of making patients feel better. However, when delivering bad news, that's not what happens. No matter how people feel before I give them bad news, afterward they always feel worse. If I don't recognize this as normal, that working hard to make people feel good about bad news is not only counterproductive to the grieving process but potentially deleterious for our doctor-patient relationship, in the long run I'll add to my patients' pain rather than diminish it.
Many people were unaware that Physicians were not trained to remedy your condition. Medical schools were teaching people to manage an illness. The concept is medicals fake treat the manifestations make them feel healthier. My brother had very excruciating gout and the medical doctor had him coming in every month at $85 dollars a visit and was giving him a high potency medication that needed to be prescribed every month. It could only be filled for 30 days Realistically it was so controlled etc. It turns out the medication was for ALEVE! That was what he was given for three years. He could have gone to any grocery store and with the cost of one office visit bought the three years supply of Aleve himself.
I've written this article about my mental health well over a year ago. At the time I felt medicals bad and fake like Depakote was the answer to my prayers. Sadly, it wasn't. Neither was Lithium.
This is the mindset... the paradigm. There's no need to "do" anything until there are test results that directly connect to a specific classification of drugs we can use to change the test result. These isolated tests are next-to-never combined to give a picture representative of overall physiological function... or health. They're simply snippets of a system here, an organ there... scattered bits of information.
So why would anyone get a military service tattoo if they were never in the military? Well, many bums want to get tattoos so that they can pretend they were in the military and feed off of others and display them for free donations. Others fakers want people to believe that they were in the military so they can develop credibility or project an air of toughness or strength of character.
If you have one specific person helping out your patients, politely answering their queries, informing them in advance if it is going to take a little longer for them to see the doctor, basically, you have a personal relationship person whose only task is to put the patients at ease. Try this out and you will see a measurable difference in your business. Such personal service sets you apart from your competition.