Top Ten Things Doctors Don’t Care About During a Pandemic
Here are the top ten things that doctors don’t care about during a pandemic (or other medical crisis):
- Their patient satisfaction scores
- What the boss administrator says
- MIPS
- The Joint Commission
- CPT codes
- Useless committees and meetings
- 15 Review of Systems
- HIPAA
- The Pain Scale
- Their own personal welfare
Think about this for a minute.
Maybe important things should matter? Novel thought.
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How about a drive-through lane with a tent at the side of the road, check a fever, <39 and no tachycardia go home, O2 sat & listen to lungs if they're clear go home and come back if you're worse. Green card – go home and stay home, yellow card, go home and get checked if you have DOE or worsening FEVER (like with a thermometer), red card to the hospital.
Assuming 5 minutes per client per station, we could screen a couple of thousand of "think-im-sick" an hour, until a lawyer discovers it and shuts it down when you don't give out an antibiotic.
Maybe if instead of worrying about all this crap in the first place, we would have been better prepared. How about a 3 month suspension of malpractice liability with later arbitration panels ( and no pain and suffering) and the medical boards address, for all actions during the crisis. How about suspension of some EMTALA provisions as well so ER can tell the rash to go home at the door. Yes one in a 100,000 will die because something is missed, but thousands more will die if the ER are full of non urgent problems. Also do not go the ER until you cannot breath, as you are more likely to get COVID 19 waiting there, than being home with a cold.
How about the corporate tax rate only be lower for companies that make their products in the US, and those making overseas, get the former higher rate? How about tax credits going to US mask makers rather than building stadiums?
How about entertainers saying they will limit their pay to 1 million a year as an example rather than telling the rest of us what to do?
How about Joint Commission being prepared for a panemic with the steps all planned in advance rather than worry about pain scales?