Dr. Paul Adams was arrested on a driving under the influence offense. Dr. Adams is a licensed medical doctor and board-certified psychiatrist. The doctor was referred to you to conduct a substance use assessment.

On the above client, please develop an EAP care plan to include an assessment of strengths and needs, suggestions for brief therapeutic interventions, crisis management, and referral. In order to answer correctly read article below.

Do Physician Interventions Work? A Resounding YES!

Data Shows the Immense Positive Impact of a Physician Intervention

By Leonard Pesheck, MBA

In the article:

• What is a Physician Intervention?
• Pre- and post-intervention survey data from the organizational perspective
• Pre- and post-intevention survey data from the physician perspective
• Final thoughts: What does the data mean?

Have you ever had a distressed physician with communication challenges or a practice style that puts everyone on the care team on edge, or causes them to be concerned? Or worse yet, has patients complaining?

These behaviors impact interpersonal and care team relationships, patient satisfaction, retention and can even lead to medical errors.

Often times when this type of serious behavior occurs, the physician is referred to VITAL WorkLife to participate in our Physician Intervention

What is a Physician Intervention?

Physician Intervention cases are referrals from an organizational leader concerned about managing a distressed physician. A case typically lasts one year with the physician first going through an assessment with a consulting physician and licensed behavioral health consultant

We use a four-chase approach for a Physician interventior

• Initial organization consultatior
• Physician assessment
• Case management
• Final organization consultation