With spots clocked into clinicians\u2019 schedules, there is availability built into the Same Day\/Next Day program. Guided by their APC, patients can be assured they\u2019re seeing the right clinician for their situation. Taking on tasks such as scheduling a biopsy moves the process along and relieves the primary care clinician from having to order one. In addition, any additional testing before the patient\u2019s first appointment with the specialist can be completed. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want patients to arrive at their first appointment with a cancer specialist and find out they need more scans or tests,\u201d Dr. Lash says. \u201cSo, when patients have their first specialist visit, they can get right to the heart of the matter with answers to questions like, \u2018What\u2019s the cancer stage?\u2019 and \u2018What\u2019s my prognosis?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Lash describes Same Day\/Next Day Cancer Care as highly patient-friendly. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA cancer diagnosis is a very scary time, so it\u2019s important to get in to see the right clinician in a timely manner,\u201d he says. \u201cIf we can do anything to put people at ease \u2013 such as getting biopsies scheduled and getting tests done \u2013 it\u2019s a great thing. It\u2019s putting patients first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With spots clocked into clinicians\u2019 schedules, there is availability built into the Same Day\/Next Day program. Guided by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-23815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}