Also, in order to meet the challenges related to patients in crisis, specialty and emergency clinics must invest in more expensive equipment and supplies. Team member and doctor salaries must inevitably be higher for emergency practices to attract skilled staff members willing to work more difficult schedules. Because emergency doctors see fewer patients but need to maintain staff on hand around the clock, higher fees are necessary to cover salaries and overhead. Both general and emergency practices are driven by the average client transaction and the number of clients seen. General practitioners also face the additional frustration of trying to provide continued medical care after an emergency visit that has quite likely drained clients' financial resources.īut there's no mystery to why emergency room fees are higher. These family doctors understandably care about their clients and don't want them to be taken advantage of in a time of crisis. Many general practitioners also wonder about the high fees that emergency clinics charge.
In a general practice setting, it's appropriate and within standards of care to delay diagnostics in certain stable patients. But some of these emergency doctors have never worked in general practice and may not recognize the impracticality-or even the questionable ethics-of recommending extensive diagnostics to every client when it's more likely that an individual patient will respond to basic symptomatic therapy. On the flip side, some emergency doctors may think a family veterinarian has failed to properly "work up" a patient when testing in the emergency room uncovers a serious health condition. Emergency doctors need to perform extensive tests to rule out serious medical problems. Like emergency physicians at human hospitals, emergency veterinarians are expected to presume the worst to ensure the patient's safety. In addition, state veterinary boards hold emergency doctors to different standards than they do general practitioners.
A general practitioner can stretch out testing for a chronic condition over time, but in the emergency room, these tests must be done all at once to rule out problems as quickly as possible. First, when clients come to the emergency room, they're seeking a quick solution to a serious problem.
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