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If a person in a nursing home has 2 doctors, whose orders do they follow?
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Needs to be clarifed: Each nursing home patient has one attending physician. Each nursing home has own policy and procedure about the role of attending physician for accepting or rejecting recommendations from podiatrist, specialists, dentist or others. Some attending physicians prefer working together with pyschiatrist or rehab physician. Please ask for unit manager nurse about the role of attending physcian.
Answered 9/28/2016
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