As long as I'm logged on.....
In my former life each room had a small desk and an exam table. We would start with me and the laptop at the desk and the patient next to the desk facing me. I had an IM practice, so it was almost always just the patient and me. I considered workstations at each desk, but never got there. It felt right.
My new life is way weirder. The buildings are concrete (typhoon rated) with resultant horrible acoustics, my hearing is shot from too many years of noise exposure, and all patients have one of 6 or 7 heavy and unique accents. EVERYONE comes with at least one other family member, often several. (In the hospital several family members invariably share the patient's room, sleeping on the floor. It's like stories I read of caring for gypsies. But I digress..) so, my only hope is to use my relatively quiet office for the interview, go across the hall to the exam room, then back to the office for follow up. It is about as inefficient as possible, but I'm not in control.
