Referral notes to nonphysicians.(Under My Skin)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-AUG-05

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If you ask patients not just why they came but why they came now, you'll often find that a third party was involved.

Whatever is wrong may have been there for some time, raising no concern in the patient's mind until someone else stared at it and warned, "You'd better get that taken care of!"

Now and then this is a colleague. In that case, I can write a letter acknowledging the referral:

Dear Chip,

Thanks so much for referring Mr. Halsey Gribness. I assured him that his red spot is not Lyme disease, adding that whatever bit him had more legs than...

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