In March 2009, St. Paul's Hospital psychiatrists Drs Chris Gorman and Ron Remick began offering group medical visits for patients with mood disorders. "We saw what GPs were doing with their group medical visits for patients with chronic conditions, and we thought it would work well for our patient group," says Dr Gorman.
And it has. Both Drs Gorman and Remick have successfully converted their individual outpatient practices at St. Paul's to group medical visits. By June 2011, all of Dr Remick's approximately 500 hospital-based patients had attended at least one group medical visit, while Gorman treats an average of 15 patients per week, for a total of 750 patients seen in group medical visits per year.
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