Who Are These Doctors?
Medical Economics conducted its 85th annual Exclusive Continuing Study which collects responses from physicians (4,934 respondng) about their professional life.
The survey results showed that the majority of respondents feared the impact of declining reimbursements and that their professional frustrations were mostly tied to hassles associated with payers, prior authorizations, and government red tape. Specifically, 68 percent were concerned about fees and reimbursement; 56 percent about the burden of paperwork; 54 percent about health care reform; 43 percent about third-party interference; 39 percent about malpractice; 29 percent about physician shortages; 28 percent about electronic health records; and 17 percent about accountable care organizations.
So, let’s do some simple math, shall we? I’ll pick subtraction. Who the f$ck were the 32% not worried about fees or reimbursement? Or the 44% not concerned about paperwork? Or the 46% not bothered by the health care reform, or the 57% not perturbed about third-party interference and on and on. Who are these people?!?
What am I missing here?
You’re not missing anything, Doug…except maybe a few math skills in your calculation of those not concerned about fees & reimbursement : 32%, according to my limited subtraction ability ( sorry, didn’t mean to be the proof reader Nazi, but you asked! 🙂 )
LOL, thanks
They are either fictional or employed physicians without a quota of patients to see in a day.
Asleep, on drugs, retired or otherwise clueless. And probably noctors as well.
Noctors? That’s funny!
That is funny. I will be using that term.
Doug, your math isn’t as simple as simple math should be with regards to fees and reimbursements. The total both ways was 104%…maybe some care TOO much or really NOT enough.
Here’s one:
“Happy New Year! This really should be a good new year
. . . things are moving in some outstanding directions for family medicine.”
– Reid Blackwelder, President AAFP and Village Idiot
agreed
I suspect they are bipolar folk in the middle of a manic episode
Foreign Medical Grads? VA physicians? the Dr. No’s who work for the medical axis of evil? NP’s and PA’s calling themselves “Doctor”?