Comments on: Are our physician leaders out of touch? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/are-our-physician-leaders-out-of-touch.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Happymanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/are-our-physician-leaders-out-of-touch.html#comment-74323 Happyman Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/are-our-physician-leaders-out-of-touch.html#comment-74323 Dr. Rob hits the nail on the head.<br/><br/>It's just like jury duty - over half the jury was geriatric, and i didn't try that hard to get out of it, being in a academic medicine at the time, and not taking a financial hit for hangin' out in lower manhattan.<br/><br/>but if i was where i am now? forget it, i'd lose like $1000/day in gross revenue. if i was stuck for a week or two that's almost my whole profit for a month!<br/><br/>i used to serve on a committee of our state medical society, and quickly learned how useless that was - the next youngest committee member was at least 35 years older than me, and all issues were "tabled". Seems that for some, committees & meetings are a disruption to their job, and for others, such diversions ARE their jobs.<br/><br/>One cannot both run a practice effectively AND be politically active, just sadly impossible. Dr. Rob hits the nail on the head.

It’s just like jury duty – over half the jury was geriatric, and i didn’t try that hard to get out of it, being in a academic medicine at the time, and not taking a financial hit for hangin’ out in lower manhattan.

but if i was where i am now? forget it, i’d lose like $1000/day in gross revenue. if i was stuck for a week or two that’s almost my whole profit for a month!

i used to serve on a committee of our state medical society, and quickly learned how useless that was – the next youngest committee member was at least 35 years older than me, and all issues were “tabled”. Seems that for some, committees & meetings are a disruption to their job, and for others, such diversions ARE their jobs.

One cannot both run a practice effectively AND be politically active, just sadly impossible.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/are-our-physician-leaders-out-of-touch.html#comment-74317 Anonymous Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/are-our-physician-leaders-out-of-touch.html#comment-74317 In the final analysis large scale organized medicine fails in our charge to them to fight the bureaucracy because they too, became bureaucracies; once they fell into the same mind set, they failed to see our complaint. The people attracted to these activities are by nature people who believe in centralized solutions to problems, people who believe that crafting the right policy will solve the insoluble, people who believe in commities, rules, policies, and credentials rather than ability, moral commitment, common sense, personal responsibility and character as the solution to problems.<br/><br/>Further exacerbating that dissonance in the natural attraction of national NGO's and governmental positions for those with statist philosophies, is the simple fact that independent self-sufficient practitioners make a huge financial sacrifice to participate. Those who with herd mentalities who have already joined one or another collective (VA, state employment, etc) usually can serve, travel expenses paid, with not financial cost to themselves. So they can go and talk for free, and talk, and talk, and talk. . . In the final analysis large scale organized medicine fails in our charge to them to fight the bureaucracy because they too, became bureaucracies; once they fell into the same mind set, they failed to see our complaint. The people attracted to these activities are by nature people who believe in centralized solutions to problems, people who believe that crafting the right policy will solve the insoluble, people who believe in commities, rules, policies, and credentials rather than ability, moral commitment, common sense, personal responsibility and character as the solution to problems.

Further exacerbating that dissonance in the natural attraction of national NGO’s and governmental positions for those with statist philosophies, is the simple fact that independent self-sufficient practitioners make a huge financial sacrifice to participate. Those who with herd mentalities who have already joined one or another collective (VA, state employment, etc) usually can serve, travel expenses paid, with not financial cost to themselves. So they can go and talk for free, and talk, and talk, and talk. . .

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