What is the point in having a multidisciplinary team if the doctors make their decisions without first consulting the others in the team??
We had a patient who required chest physio at least x2/day and were planning to see him again in the afternoon as stated in our documentation. Then out of nowhere, we were told that the patient was going to be discharged to a high care facility.
What had we missed? Maybe the doctors could argue that the patient was on the “not to be resuscitated” list and only required chest maintenance, he had no need to be in the hospital anymore. Or did he? His chest was definitely in need of more chest physio though.
Is having a high turn over rate / allocating new patients to each hospital bed to see which bed has had the record number of patients the priority now?
What happened to multidisciplinary team care? Where did we go wrong?
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Yes, I agree, that certainly can be an annoying situation. Perhaps try to bear in mind though that ultimately the doctors are respnsible when a decision has to be made and that sometimes a decison has to be made on the spot. Keep fostering that team environment though, it's definitely the way to go...
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