Since I've moved to a new clinic this month, I'm much slower at seeing patients than I usually am. That's by design because I'm keeping room to establish and clarify my processes with a new group of colleagues and staff.
Not only are there day-to-day activities to do - order investigations, write prescriptions, recall patients - but also there's higher-level documentation and arrangement of patient information for their comprehensive primary care. Couple my preferences with the established patterns at this office means there are lots of questions. It would do me no good to learn all of that while having a full patient schedule!
Sorting through these details is one of the unglamorous costs of transition, though ultimately these steps set the foundation that lead me back to the care that I want to provide for my patients.
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