Better Support?
It turns out job satisfaction is not so great for primary care doctors and the AAFP writes as if they are surprised by it:
Primary care physicians are never happier with their medical career choice than when they are spending time with patients. But balancing care for complex patients with administrative demands is one of their toughest tasks, according to primary care physicians who were interviewed for a recent report.
Administrative demands are tough? Really? Hmmm. So the ACO, PCMH, P4P and other garbage bureaucratic burdens are making the job difficult. You don’t say?
From the AAFP president Wanda Filer MD:
According to Filer, medicine is the only profession whose members adopted new technology and then had to hire additional staff — such as medical scribes — because the new tools made simple tasks more time-consuming.
So you never saw this was going to be more time consuming?
What a joke, both the AAFP and those that write for them.
Yeah right. Like any of us can afford a scribe in the first place. That’s for rich doctors, like specialists. And a lot of this is AAFPs fault for endorsing all this nonsense in the first place. What a crock and what a bunch of dummies.
The Commonwealth Fund report noted that new initiatives regarding payment, technology and recruiting need time to show their effectiveness, and it concluded optimistically: “With time, these efforts may lead a new generation of physicians to understand what many know already: Primary care is among the most rewarding careers available in medicine.”
Uh no, time is up for Primary Care. These new initiatives will only drive us deeper into the ground.
RSW, great post. Filer and her whore of an organization deserve only contempt.
Filer is one of those bottom-dwelling monstrosities who exists in the realm where stupidity is so profound and so totally pervasive that it is indistinguishable from pure evil.