Clinic Companion: Essential Templates for Primary Care

Imagine practicing medicine on a busy day, knowing your notes are already done before you've even seen your patients. That's the experience Clinic Companion offers. Rather than staying late to finish notes, struggling to recall details about each patient, and figuring out how to describe that rash you saw, you get your life back. Simply record an HPI; the rest – from the physical exam, assessment, and plan, to even ICD-10 codes – is just a simple copy-and-paste away. Keep this book open alongside your EMR and watch your satisfaction in patient care soar as you can browse diagnoses and work-ups in real time and copy them to any platform.Based on UpToDate and several primary care books, these templates are designed to enhance clinical efficiency for practitioners at all levels, from residency to attending, in various primary care settings – including urgent care, family medicine, internal medicine, and integrative medicine.The structure is simple, original, and a product of years of trial and error in busy residency clinics. It begins with your primary suspicion (Likely), providing an opportunity to establish your train of thought and speculate on possible causes. Next is your (Differential), robust and perhaps overly comprehensive, but exactly what you need when recalling how to work up a condition like hyponatremia. Following this is the (Ordered) section: labs, imaging, and special tests, which inform not only you and the next doctor but also your medical assistant, nurse, patient, caregiver, and any administrative staff who need to know. Then come your (Recommendations), where you advise patients on applying specific techniques, such as the Soak and Seal method for eczema, and direct them to non-profit or government-sponsored websites for further information. (Start) your therapy with a new medication, easy to find and quick to reference. (Consider) alternative therapies, like surgery, further imaging, lab work, and referrals to specialists. Finally, provide specific (Precautions) and (Follow up) instructions, not just general 'ED precautions' but tailored advice like precautions for thyroid storm symptoms in hyperthyroidism, with a justified follow-up timeframe.Once you've memorized the structure, your review process becomes intuitive, drawing your eyes exactly where they need to go, and organizing your thoughts reliably. Read more