True or False: Discharging a patient puts them on your list automatically?

Discharging a patient does not automatically place them back on your list for future encounters. When a patient is discharged, they typically conclude their current episode of care, and any necessary follow-up appointments or further care would require separate scheduling or management. The correct understanding is that a patient must be actively readmitted or scheduled for further treatment to be considered on your list again.

In a healthcare context, discharge refers to the formal process of concluding a patient's stay or treatment, indicating that they are no longer under active care at that time. As such, unless there are specific instructions for follow-up or they return for another visit, their status would not change automatically on your list simply because they have been discharged. This reflects the need for deliberate actions to manage patient lists, rather than an automatic process that follows discharge.