Diagnostic medicine - thoroughness through time
Everbody has experienced this situation: After waiting for your appointment in the waiting area you get a few minutes with the doctor to explain complex symptoms. That is by far not enough time to fully understand a patient. To reach a diagnosis, patients oftentimes have to visit multiple specialists and dignoses are delayed. That is by no means your doctors fault: Keeping a private practice running ist an extremely costly endavour and the insurance does not adequately compensate for the time it takes to get to know a patient. In addition, most colleagues have to treat more patients than they have time for. Therefore the decision has to be made to either shorten the time for each patient or to outright refuse treatment to patients. Neither is a good option, but turning patients away is the arguably more unethical of the two.
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The doctors of Telemedicine Berlin have time. Our doctors don't have any time constraints, we will get into all the details and document all symptoms with regards to when they occured, what helped/worsened the symptoms as well as analyze your family history and all other possible factors in our 8 stage process:
1
Patient interview
A doctor inquires about all symptoms and family history. This can take anywhere from half an hour to several hours, free of charge!
2
Interdisciplinary conference
Discussion of the file by several doctors with different fields of expertise. This allows a first initial classification of symptoms.
3
Search strategy
A detailed search strategy is devised in order to ensure that all available literature is found, including scientific journals and international guidelines.
4
Research
The researcher searches and summarizes all available literature regarding your case. This is the most time consuming step of the process and takes hours.
5
Discussion of the results
The previously found results a re discussed by several doctors. This is similar to tumor boards but tailored to your specific case and questions.
6
Expert consultation
The results are discussed with an expert in the field of your diagnosis (chief of medicine/surgery, senior researcher etc.). Additional charges may apply.
7
Explanation of the results
The results are presented and explained to you by a doctor. This step also doesn't have any time-limit, we will take however long it takes. You will also recieve our 24 hour hotline number.
8
Summary letter
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You get a letter outlining our findings in "medical" language. This way your general practitioner can initiate all necessary further steps.
