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Originally Posted by Tobra
I don't think I have ever seen a patient that I did not lay hands on, never.
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I'm like that, too. But I work with an interpreter at a clinic. Obviously she interprets for several doctors. And she's commented to me a number of times that I'm the only one who touches every patient. In residency we used to joke about documenting PLGFD: patient looks good from door. But apparently there are quite a few docs who do that in real practice. I don't know how they get away with charting/billing. I have read their reports, and they certainly seem to document a lot of things that you'd only know if you actually put hands on the patient. But maybe that's why some guys can see 70 patients in a day. So for those guys, they're actually happier with telemedicine. Doesn't perturb them a bit.