Same-day appointments in GI: A step towards patient-centered care?

Medicine has so many different facets; providers’ attention is pulled in different directions every day. So much so, many have argued medicine has lost its core focus: the patient.

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Patient-centered care has become the new, or rather renewed, mantra in healthcare. How can physicians put the patient first?

Shawn Khodadadian, MD, a gastroenterology with Manhattan (N.Y.) Gastroenterology has found one way to focus more on the patient. He is now offering same-day appoints for GI patients.

“When a person has pain they simply cannot wait a day or two to see a doctor. I am happy to be offering same-day emergency gastroenterology appointments,” he said.     

Savvy physicians will begin to seek ways to demonstrate patient-focused and value-based care, whether it be through strategies like same-day appointments or other avenues.

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