What does it mean to be in critical condition?

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Consistency and coordination among teams makes for good critical care. In this video, HealthMaker Henry Masur, MD, chief of the National Institutes of Health's critical care medicine department,  explains specialist roles on a critical care team.

What Makes for Good Critical Care?

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Hi, I'm Dr Judy Hollis and you're asking is there a fee for psychological and psychiatric counselling. Yes in most cases there is because these are trained professionals who put in a lot of years, getting higher education as well as many hours at the internship, learning the skill and the art of psychotherapy and counselling. 

Fees range widely. It's very important to ask your practitioner in advance what the fees will be and usually the person will enter into some kind of an agreement with you, that all this is very clearly spelled out. There might even be a fee for missing sessions if you don't call early enough to cancel an appointment. 

All of this is to set up a situation where you and this professional feel like you are doing some disciplined work and giving respect to both of your time. So there are many agencies that can refer you to a lot of different therapists and of course you can give me a call. 
   

It seems like nothing is for free these days, but time spent with a counselor may be worth every penny. In this video, Dr. Judi Hollis discusses what determines psychologists' fee structures.

Is There a Fee to Talk to a Counselor or Psychologist?

I think we begin that conversation again if we get to this notion of that trusted adviser who is a health care professional, who's taking care of you, and that might be with clergy, it might be with other experts that you bring into your fold. I think it's early and often having conversations about what it is you want. 

Some of us for example have directives on our driver's license in terms of our, you know, and that's not really an end of life decision, but it's a decision about what happens at or end of life or organs and that sort of thing. I think we need to with our families have those conversations too about what level of care we expect and to make sure the whole family is getting on board with that. 

I think technology would play a role here too technology will keep people really, really comfortable as they approach the end of life, new drugs, new ways of caring for people in environments. So, that quite frankly aren't just creepy as hospitals could be sometimes so I'm hopeful about all that. 

  

Conversations about end-of-life healthcare should begin long before decisions need to be made, says HealthMaker Bill Crounse, MD. They should involve healthcare providers and those in the support circle.

What does it mean to be in critical condition?

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