UnitedHealthcare is Fixing Doctor Burnout
UnitedHealthcare which is part of UnitedHealth Group is using its United Health Foundation to fix doctor burnout:
The United Health Foundation provided a three-year, $3 million grant to the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation to create a new program to train 200 family physicians to lead change for improved clinician well-being in their practices and organizations.
Yes, you read that correctly. The AAFP is accepting their money, without irony or guilt, and is all in. There is no mention that UnitedHealthcare is a large reason doctors are burned out in the first place. Instead, there is this:
Participants selected to participate in the program benefit from virtual meetings, seminars, conferences, webinars and small-group breakout sessions focused on physician well-being, leadership development and performance improvement. They also complete two projects throughout the course of the program — one personal and one organizational — with ongoing support from mentors.
Hooray!!! This should fix the burnout issue.
If you want to see the link to all this just click here.
I wouldn’t mock so much. This program had real results – one physician started a daily gratitude practice as her project; another began a daily yoga routine for personal well being!!!!!!
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April Fools!!
I’d say that the AAFP is a bunch of disease-ridden whores, but I don’t want to impugn the reputation of sex workers with such a comparison.
Sex workers are far more honest, and actually provide some value for payment, unlike the AAFP
AAFP is woke now too!!
Yeah and when I retired from practice, I refused to pay the $970.00 “retirement” fee the AAFP whores wanted a final payment of. Efff them was my response. They sent me the useless certificate anyways so I got a “free” $970.00 piece o’ useless paper. Kurt
Just like many other stories you’ve brought to light, the answer to burnout is to hog up even more physician time, and give them homework. But whatever you do, DON’T reduce regulations and administrative burdens, and DON’T under any circumstance pay more.
United caused my burnout. I was the only one taking call, and yet United had a closed panel and refused to let me do any of their elective work, sending it to a non board certified, 70 year old physician who did not take any call, and who signed their low rate contract to keep all the daytime elective business. I was called in to the ER every night (back then they could do that, and NO CALL PAY either) and then they would pay me their low rates, claiming it was reasonable and customary. Balance billing would have made me a pariah. I became depressed and burned out repairing lacerations and being the night surgeon for ten cents on the dollar. They became rich off of underpaying people like me, but not ever controlling health care costs, more like being a bully and extorting money from those they could.