Adventures in telepsychiatry » background http://adventuresintelepsychiatryblog.patrickbarta.com A psychiatrist in a solo private practice experiments with telepsychiatry Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:06:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Telepsychiatry and the background http://adventuresintelepsychiatryblog.patrickbarta.com/2009/12/telepsychiatry-and-the-background/ http://adventuresintelepsychiatryblog.patrickbarta.com/2009/12/telepsychiatry-and-the-background/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:55:36 +0000 patrickbarta http://adventuresintelepsychiatryblog.patrickbarta.com/?p=336 The office for my practice and my office at home both get a little cluttered at time. I try to keep my practice office relatively organized because I think most patients feel better that way, and I try to keep my office at home less cluttered because I feel better that way.

At work, I’ve been aware of what’s in the background when I’m talking to patients, and I’m slowly moving things so that there isn’t anything to distract people with whom I speaking on Skype video calls.

Last week, I needed to do a Skype session on short notice, so I decided to do it from my home office. I rushed over to the computer, turned it on, and was making sure that the webcam was working when I noticed how bad the background was. I’ve been getting the place painted, and everything goes from one room to another in piles, following the painter. I noticed that the visual impression I was going to make on my patient was terrible.

Luckily, I had a shoji screen around and just stuck it behind me, so everything worked out fine.

I’m still learning though, I’ve never seen any patients in my home, but I’m beginning to realize that doing telepsychiatry from home requires me to think ahead more than I have been doing.

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