It’s a matter of listening, something that the system doesn’t allow:
This is interesting since the PAs and nurse practitioners see the ‘less complicated’ patients, you would think that it would be they who had only 15 minutes per patient…with their easy patients and all. And the physician would be graced with over 30 minutes per patient….to decipher the nuances of the more complicated patients, and make more difficult medical decisions.
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True as that may be, I don’t believe PA’s should treat patients in 15 minutes either. The point is to avoid errors.
An equally appropriate question to ask would be “Why are doctors such pretentious twats when they come to the pharmacy?”
And I mean that, too. I’d rate the group, on the whole, at about a 9.5 on the pretentiousness scale. I’d rate lawyers, as a group, as a perfect 10, with their doctor buddies not far behind.
I wonder what that means in the perennial doctor-lawyer wars. Probably nothing. Those that are well-off tend to rate around an 8 on that same scale, so I guess it makes sense.
It’s interesting that like all things Kevin sees as problems in medicine, that “the system” gets blamed.
Until physicians start taking responsibility for themselves, and realizing that they are a major player in creating “the system”, not much is going to change.
An asshole is an asshole, regardless of the time they have to bill for it.
I decided to stop letting the “system” tell me how to practice, and went from scheduling 4 patients per hour to a max of 2. Lower overhead meant that I made the same income with only a 30% increase in the per visit fee. I liked it. Patients liked it. No one elses opinion counts.
Better not let Catron hear that. He says it can’t be done and you’re abandoning the poor if you do try.
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