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Hypnosis Authority Cal Banyan Provides Hypnosis Certification Training Courses, Videos, Audios, Books & More - New Video Every Week
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Quick question about the referrals. You mentioned a courtesy call or letter to the doc about working with their patient when a referral isn't required. I would think that you would want/ need permission from your client. I sure wouldn't want anyone contacting my doc without my permission.
Once again, I'm glad that Cal and I broke down this important topic! This one came to me from a viewer that I met at the convention.... I hope we were able to address her questions!
Excellent point Lydia, yes, you would want to get a reieaee from your client for you to speak to the doctor (and the doctor will need a release to speak with you).
Hi Lydia,
As part of Cal's business start up pack, there is an information release form. I now have every client fill out that form, and if it is a non-clinical issue and they say no, then you don't contact. Everything is done with the client's permission. Hope this helps!
Cal & Brenda, another great podcast! Great advice and clarity on the legal sticking points.
Of course pain and some other issues require the doctor's referral up front. But on smoking or losing weight or confidence building you wouldn't need the referral up front. So, Lydia, you can ask for the client's doctors name and number on the intake form...and have verbiage right there for permission to contact their doc. That makes follow up/intro to doc fairly easy.
Thank you Cal and Brenda for this very helpful episode on getting medical referrals. This is something that is so important to understand yet it's never been that clear to me on the different ways to go about it, probably because it's different from state to state. I appreciated the idea of the courtesy call or letter, that's very helpful. The better we can share our work with the medical community the more people we'll be able to help, so thank you for covering this important topic.
You are very welcome. And, I look forward to recording our next podcasts. We never seem to run out of things to talk about in this huge topic of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
Cal