How to handle co-worker being out
In our clinic we had another clinician being out again today, which happens rather frequently and we usually are told that we are supposed to try to "absorb" the patients with all the other therapists because we don't want to cancel patients in those situations apparently.
My personal expectation would be that patients get absorbed or switched over to different therapists IF and only if there is room on those therapists, but we usually try and do it even if it means that we get doubled.
I got a lot of attitude from the office manager today when I refused to double one of my patients (TBI and impulse control issues) with a different patient (dizziness with recent novel complaints of tremors) that I had never even seen before. How would other PTs in here have handled that situation?