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What happens during a typical medical marijuana consultation?
How long should a thorough medical marijuana consultation take?
My answer of 45 to 60 minutes face to face time with the clinician surprises many patients, especially those who are used to a typical doctor’s visit which lasts about 5-10 minutes.
However, as you read further, you’ll have a greater understanding of why a quality consultation takes as long as it does.
Why does a high quality medical marijuana consultation take so long?
A typical medical marijuana consultation is divided into 4 segments:
- Taking care of basic tasks, such as providing informed consent, verifying the patient, and obtaining contact information.
- Verifying the patient’s qualifying medical diagnosis, which consists of reviewing medical records, interviewing the patient about their symptoms, inquiring about marijuana history, and performing a physical exam on the patient
- Providing an overview of the Louisiana medical marijuana program, including a review of statutory regulations, product options, and dispensary locations
- Finalizing a patient’s medical marijuana recommendation, which consists of a specific medical marijuana dosing regimen, followup planning, and submission of recommendation to the dispensary.
So you can see with everything that’s involved in providing a medical marijuana recommendation that it’s literally impossible to provide a high quality service in the typical time period that other doctors allocate for a medical marijuana consultation.
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