Poll on the Physician Work Environment
Editor’s Note: I was using another poll service before that only allowed 50 votes. It was 31 yes and 19 no. I am adding another widget to allow more votes so don’t worry about how many have voted so far. I will add them all up at the end.
It would cost me 3% of my income to have a scribe which would easily make me 20% more productive and significantly ease the misery of data entry, but I am salaried and paying three tuitions right now.
A yes vote is naive at best. It wouldn’t be long before it would be, 30%, 50%……
The whole healthcare industrial complex feeds off our physician – patient covenant. We are the driving force. They play us against our oath and ethics; now our “privileged guilt” and implied systemic racism, etc, etc, ,….. our new generation of physicians have been groomed to accept all that bullshit “science”.
How about:
Either you do x, y, and z by next week, or we will code every office visit as 99211, and will report you if you change any of the codes.
Docs have a lot of power, if they would learn how to use it.
Insurance considers undercoding fraudulent just as they do overcoding. The system I used to be in also had coders look over your billing to see if you were not coding correctly. You could be penalized if your coding was “off” the mark overall by a certain percentage. You would also be treated to a coding education day.
How about paying us what we’re worth…AND you make it tolerable (otherwise we will leave and then how screwed will you be?!)
I got kids in college. I’d work in worse conditions for more. My family doesn’t need me happy, my clinic doesn’t, my city, state country don’t. They need me producing. Period. My wife would trade my corpse right now for a million dollars.
Exactly right. This is “have to,” not “want to.”
We’ll pay back 15% of our salary if you’ll be nicer to us?
That’s negotiating from strength.
I vote “no.” Short of a radical societal change which permanently alters patient attitudes and expectations, it is still a simple, individual calculation of income vs. hassle, and environment i.e. enjoyment is irrelevant.
The question makes no sense. Why would we work LESS in a BETTER environment? Most sane human beings would work MORE when we find ourselves working in an enjoyable, “awesome” [quoting from the poll] work environment.
Work *for* less.
(I read it the way you did the first time too.)
I agree 100% about working more when you enjoy your job. That is what we see in direct primary care. I guess I am trying to show that the environment is SOOOO important that doctors would actually take less guaranteed income to be in a happier place. Make sense?