When two of your doctors are in the same location, seeing them back-to-back will save transportation time. If your doctor is part of a large medical center, you might be able to schedule other services at the facility.
“If we need to do pre-op testing on an older patient, for example, we’ll also try to do other blood work that they may need, like cholesterol or diabetes testing, at the same time as well,” says Joy-Lynne Barrett-Carnes, MD, a geriatric medicine physician at the HMH JFK University Medical Center in Edison, N.J.