Five faculty members share appointments with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Many of our faculty members share appointments with other departments and schools on campus and are involved in interdisciplinary collaborations with committees, programs, and institutions both at Harvard and around the world.
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This change in task contributes to patients' reports of higher satisfaction with their care in the shared appointment.
In the new format, a nurse attends the shared appointment and takes notes directly into a computer.
The shared appointment clearly improves productivity: In 90 minutes a doctor can see 10 to 12 patients rather than three to five.
In the shared appointment, the doctor then provides individual counsel, goes over prescriptions, orders tests, and discusses progress, challenges, and future treatment plans for each patient.
At Club Red, they are given a choice between that one-on-one appointment and a 90-minute shared appointment, in which the cardiologist sees each patient in a group setting with as many as 11 others.
In addition, Club Red patients get a sense of support from the respectful listening of other patients, which makes a potentially intimidating medical experience more inviting, and they can see the doctor more often because they can drop in, at short notice, to a shared appointment.
Club Red does much to reduce those problems and in the process sets off a virtuous cycle: The information one patient gets—or gives in a shared appointment can spark questions from others, the answers to which may be relevant for everyone, including the physician.
