Up-to-date physician preference cards are essential for great staff-physician relationships because they demonstrate that the ASC respects the physician’s time and wants the physician to work as efficiently as possible. Ms. Howey recommends your staff work with key personnel at the physician’s office to update the cards.
“The doctor’s not going to sit down and go through it with you, but the RN or tech will,” she says. Ask the physician’s nurse or surgical tech to go through the list with you; the out-of-date items should be obvious to them. “Just making little changes for [the physicians] makes them feel so special, knowing that somebody took the time to realize,” she says.
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