Glossary C
Glossary C
Cost per applicant refers to the amount of money spent on a recruitment campaign divided by the number of people that subsequently apply for jobs as a result of the recruitment campaign.
Getting a diagnosis is supposed to be the turning point. After months or years of unexplained symptoms, mounting uncertainty, and the particular exhaustion that comes from not knowing what is wrong, a diagnosis provides something invaluable: a name, a framework, and a path forward. For most people, that path forward runs directly through a prescription pad.
What happens next, however, is where the clinical narrative and lived reality frequently diverge. The prescription is written. The patient leaves the office with a plan. And then they arrive at the pharmacy counter and discover that the medication their doctor has prescribed — the one that is supposed to begin the process of recovery — costs more than their monthly grocery budget.
For a significant portion of patients, that is where the path ends. Not because they chose to stop. But because they simply could not afford to continue.