Chapter 6.What Is a Treatment Plan?
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You met your new patient, established a working relationship, and explored the chief complaint, the present illness, and as much of the history as you could cover in the initial interview. You marshaled the data to form one or more hypotheses. You put together a reasonable formulation that explains the why and the how of the patient’s problems. Now you can take the result of all this work and organize it into a roadmap of the therapy to come. What will be the treatment outcome and how will that be accomplished?
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