Frequently Asked Questions About Dr. Mortimer's Private Practice in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and in General Adult Psychiatry

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT DR. MORTIMER’S PRIVATE PRACTICE IN CHILD & ADOLESCENT AND GENERAL ADULT PSYCHIATRY

Dear patients and families,

Welcome to Dr. Mortimer’s website! Some patients and their families are relatively new to Dr. Mortimer’s practice, and others might not yet be completely familiar with his office procedures or with the business aspects of his private practice. This document has a number of purposes.

  1. It is intended to acquaint you with Dr. Mortimer’s solo, private outpatient psychiatric practice.
  2. It will provide you with some of Dr. Mortimer’s professional qualifications.
  3. It will provide you with information about the situations, attitudes, politics, economics and other complexities that can potentially compromise your psychiatric treatment.
  4. It is intended to put in writing your agreement – or contract – with Dr. Mortimer regarding expectations of each other.
  5. It highlights areas that are frequent areas of contention so that there is less likelihood of misunderstandings.

The areas of potential misunderstanding include:

Communication is necessary for a sound doctor/patient relationship, so if anything here is not 100% clear to you, do be sure to let Dr. Mortimer know about it right away!

One other thing: since Dr. Mortimer sees children, teens and adults, when you see "you" in the essay below, but the identified patient is a child or teen, please do make the necessary grammatical changes to the message (i.e., translate "you" to "your child") so it "fits" with your family's particular circumstances.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT DR. MORTIMER’S PRIVATE PRACTICE IN CHILD & ADOLESCENT AND GENERAL ADULT PSYCHIATRY