Opinion: Is there a best time of day to see your doctor?
Medical decisions made later in the day may not be as good as those made earlier, but subtle changes to electronic health records and new approaches to delivering health care…
When it comes to the medical care you receive, it shouldn’t really matter whether you see your doctor in the morning, the middle of the day, or late in the afternoon. But it can.
To investigate the effect of time of day on decisions about cancer screening, my team at the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit and I recently examined primary care doctors’ orders for screening tests across the course of the day. We focused on visits with patients who were eligible for either breast or colon cancer screening. We
