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Usage examples of consults.

As far as ordering consults from outside the CMV community, you're completely off the graph.

You must seriously increase your productivity, you must lower your use of laboratory tests drastically, you must reduce, or better yet stop, using consults outside the CMV family, and you must keep your patients out of the ER.

David thought about calling in some consults, but after his poor utilization review the day before, he was reluctant.

The problem was that the consults who might have been helpful were not part of the CMV organization.

Then today you irresponsibly ordered two non-CMV consults to see a hopelessly terminal patient.

As a result of the run-in with Kelley the day before he was reluctant to request any consults since neither of the two he wanted--oncology and infectious disease--were CMV doctors.

The very day after I talk to you about avoiding unnecessary consults outside of the CMV community, you do it again with another terminal patient.

As I've told you before, you are using far too many consults, especially outside the CMV family.

He was afraid to call any consults, partly because of Kelley and partly because the consults had not provided any help in the three similar cases.

And calling in consults for Eakins had resulted in David's removal from the case.

Once again he ordered everything: consults, lab tests, X rays, even an MRI of the skull.

He hunkers down at her head, passes a strobe over her hand, consults the glowing data running across his vision, "Got her," he says, moving on.

Such is his concern that he consults Alf Bell (geography) in preference to his usual attempt to win Andrea's attention.

The usual protocol is for us to order the consults if the patient does not have an AmeriCare gatekeeper.

She consults and writes while she looks for something interesting enough to draw her back into action, and her presence in this room suggests that Epiphyte(2) Corp.