Medical Space
Just watched the movie Office Space again the other day. Laughed a lot, like I always do. They were so on the money and I think that is why it has reached “classic” status with a huge following. One quote really hits home for me as a physician. Peter Gibbons (not pictured above), the main character, says this:
“…we don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”
Does that seem familiar for any of you guys? Did you fill out your TPS reports…I mean quality indicators yet?
WHO plans to release the ICD-11 next year. It’s major improvement is supposed to be “multipurpose and coherent classification.”
I recently attended (well, I dropped out halfway through) a webinar on ICD-10. The speaker told us how we needed to “consider the procedural changes needed”, “assemble a multidisciplinary team”, “mobilize a variety of resources”…in other words, put out a lot of corporate buzzwords without ever giving us the slightest idea of how to deal with the change or what software/information was available to help us. Somebody needs to address the buzzword invasion, or we will be buried under a mountain of meaningless prose.
Don’t forget the buzzword ENGAGED. My new favorite.
“will be”????
“yeah, i’m going to have to ask you to come in on saturday. and sunday as well…..”
soon, with all the docs leaving primary care, we’ll be working 7 days a week too. that will definitely help reimbursements. who needs time off?