The problem with rotating providers
Starting over each visit.
Many treatment settings rotate providers. Each visit may involve a different physician, nurse practitioner, or care coordinator.
That means repeating your history each time. Decisions are made based on a single encounter rather than an ongoing relationship.
What continuity allows
Care that builds over time.
When you see the same physician at each visit, decisions are based on how you have been doing — not just today.
For buprenorphine treatment, this matters. Dose adjustments, response to side effects, and changes in your situation are all managed within a relationship that has context.
You are not restarting each visit. You are continuing care.
In practice
In practice.
You see the same physician each visit.
Over time, there is context — not just what is happening today, but how things have been going.
Decisions are made with that context.
You are not restarting each visit. You are continuing care.
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