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Old Mar 11, 2009, 12:31 AM
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My guy starts 10 minutes after the hour and goes to the hour, although we rarely start or finish on time. I often run into the other clients on both ends of my hour. I am always curious to see who else employs my T. The variety of the different family groupings gives me confidence he has lots of experience with different types of groups and dynamics. I think everyone needs a break between clients and I wonder why other healthcare professionals don't tend to do the same. Like your family doctor. Mine is always going directly from one patient to the next and this has been the pattern of all the family docs, gynos, dermos, etc. that I've ever had. Is there something significantly different about psychotherapy that they wouldn't do it the same way as other clinicians? Because surely every doc would like time to write up notes, go to the restroom, etc. So why wouldn't MDs do that too?
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