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Anyone not particularly enjoy/get anxiety around new patients? I work out patient and we get 75 min slots for initial consults, which I feel goes by so fast and often theres a lot going on (or even if there isnt, there could be as so many conditions have similar complaints/symptoms/are comorbid. For the most part my practice's pt population is pretty "good", and it's not even that I don't like the puzzle-solving part of it because I do like that part of practicing medicine. But I dont know I just get this feeling of unease when I see a new pt on my schedule.
Yeah, asking about specific detail (while sometimes necessary, can really open up a can of worm or go down a rabbit hole real quick)
Oh no like 4 days a week I do. Not sure why I still feel this way
I have a lot of support and my supervising physician has told me to not feel pressured to “do” anything in the initial visit but it’s my own issues I guess. I have been a PA for 10 years but I’m primary care mostly and treated a lot of bread and butter anxiety/mild depression so I’m fairly new to psych <1year . I should prob try and hone my interviewing skills I’ve just been more focused on getting to know all the conditions in more detail. We also get alot of people who were previously diagnosed with things like bipolar or BPD, sometimes very obviously wrongly diagnosed, so there’s that too.
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Yea I think part of it also is asking the social history questions which always feels awkward slipping it in when they’re trying to talk about their symptoms