On post #7 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
The most useful thing anyone has posted about Getting a referral in this category was a table of what had been measured and by whom. That is what I would want again.
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Coming back to: Getting a referral rather than a refusal
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For anyone finding this later: the short answer on Getting a referral is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing.
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IRenaudin, post #7: Asking what would change the plan is more productive than asking whether the plan is right. It gets you the decision criteria rather than a verdict. Go to post
Bringing a record of symptoms with dates and severities makes an assessment materially easier and is the single most useful preparation.
k.chukwu, post #11: Getting a referral is a good example of a question where the honest answer is boring and the interesting answers are unsupported. I would go with boring. Go to post
Post #26 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.
Bringing a published document rather than a summary changes the conversation. Bringing a forum thread does not.
Adding a source would improve this post and I do not have one to hand.
integrator_log, post #35: On post #31 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification. Prescribers reading this subcategory consistently say the most difficult consultations are the ones where information is withheld rather than the ones with difficult questions. If this contradicts something upthread, the upthread version may well be the better one. Go to post
A question phrased as "what would you want to see before considering X" is answerable and is not a request for X.
s.chowdhury, post #6: Agreed, and I will stop repeating the version of this I had been repeating. Go to post
Reframing Getting a referral slightly, because I think the disagreement is about the question rather than the answer. If the question is "does it happen", yes. If it is "how often", nobody here knows.
Before the thread moves on from Getting a referral — what is the sample size behind the claim? I am not being difficult; I have seen the same figure quoted from an n of four and from an n of four hundred.
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