VIDEO: Collaboration between multiple disciplines benefits patients’ contraceptive care

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There are so many health care providers that give exceptional contraceptive care. I’m an OB/GYN, but I have colleagues who are primary care physicians, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatricians, nurse midwives, nurse practitioner, PAs, so many in our care team who do provide comprehensive contraceptive care. And so really being collaborative in this model is important because everyone does not feel comfortable seeing a doctor, everyone does not feel comfortable seeing a nurse. So having a collaborative practice allows people to meet the needs that they have and to get the care from the person and in the way that they desire it. Collaborative care models have shown to increase and improve outcomes for folks in community. They’ve been shown to have greater satisfaction with care. When we poll patients afterward and inquire about their experience, and also ultimately, folks are more likely to rate their own health care, their health, and their health care higher and more favorably. These models are really designed to be as complicated as the lives of our patients are, in the sense that this is not a one-size-fits-all. Oftentimes, many doctors have a bit of resistance around being expansive in our models of care. They’re questions about scope of practice and who’s doing what. I want to say very clearly that none of that factors into what the person needs. Our colleagues, who are working across multiple disciplines, multiple specialties, are deeply invested in the health and well-being in our community, of our community, and we are deeply grateful for the care that they provide. It’s also critical to understand that if this is who the patient is most comfortable with, it is their human right to make that decision, to get the care that they want and need from the person that they want and need it from, whether that is me or not.