That, combined with the push for an EHR:
The federal government is pushing for physicians to implement electronic medical records, thus adding to their overhead expense, she said.“Suppose your overhead was 60 percent and you’re going to get a cut of 10 percent,” Turner said.
“That entire 10 percent comes out of the 40 percent you were going to take home, so now you’re only going to have 30 percent of the takehome pay, plus you’re going to have increased expenses with that electronic medical record. So now your expenses go up to 70 percent, but the feds cut you to 90 percent. That gives you the 20 percent for take-home pay.”
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I have been out of private practice for almost two years. In private practice I made a very comfortable living using written medical records and felt I was taking good care of patients. I am now at a federal hospital doing locums work using EHR. What a joke! You can put EHR where the sun doesn’t shine. EHR is a detriment to good patient care.
Even the GAO says there are huge privacy problems with EMR. So patients lose their privacy, doctors lose money and get bogged down with fractious computers. Who wins. Hint: follow the money.
Is it just me, or is there nothing some physician somewhere won’t bitch about when it comes to healthcare. You bitch about the current system, you bitch about alternatives, you bitch about your pay, you bitch about your patients, it’s just bitch, bitch, bitch, nonstop.
If you’re all this miserable, why don’t you find something else to do?
“If you’re all this miserable, why don’t you find something else to do?”
well, let’s see. i went to 4 yrs of undergrad, then 4 yrs of med school, then 3 yrs of residency, one more of fellowship (that’s 4+4+3+1=12). and you say I should “love it or leave it” huh?
“Boy, you’d really be screwed if they all took your advice, wouldn’t you?”
Nah, someone would take their place. No matter what else is involved, being a physician still pays better than 95% of the jobs in the world. And that will always make some people happy to come to work.
Just amazing that providers have the nerve to bitch about other people making money. The Jesse James’ of modern day society crying because someone else got a small piece of the pie before they could rob the baker. Here… let me call you a waaaaahmbulance.
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