A clinician shares how to build lasting relationships with healthcare providers: show up in person, explain your training and services, ask about their workflow and decision-making, and challenge assumptions. She convinced an ENT to scope children before release decisions instead of assuming they were fine.
I was going to say, how did you build those relationships with the local providers? That's exactly what I did. Face to face, no phone calls, face to face. I went in there and I said, look, this is how I was trained. This is what's important to me. This is what I can offer. Tell me about your practice. Love that. Yeah. Do you value functional assessment? Do you right away do a release? How does that work? Also made some phone calls to some ENTs who send kids back and say, oh, they look fine. Well, How do you know if you didn't scope them? How do you know they look fine? Exactly. And get that on— I was able to get one ENT in my area on board and did understand the value of scoping a child and really ruling that out, you know, before any determination could be made whether or not they're ready for a release.
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