(no subject)
Not exactly looking forward to today.
There's a lunch meeting where administration is coming in for the Providers meeting. (Oh, how I loathe that term. I am a DOCTOR, and I'm still paying off the expensive piece of paper on the wall, WTF) They had apparently started a board to determine if primary care/walk in docs are seeing "enough" patients or if they're meeting expected quotas of patients. And if they don't, they're expected to put in more hours or days to meet that quota.
This is shaming bullshit. I said so at our department meeting, and I plan to say it again today. It's a shame when my six and a half years working here becomes the lead-in for recruiters to say that the length of time I've been here is admirable. It's a shame when I'm seen as disposable and interchangeable as my patients. Psychiatry is the redheaded stepchild of medicine, not really taken seriously until we're needed, and even then our opinions mean fuck all.
I keep a patient list. I curate it and drop the names of those no show out of the clinic or simply don't return. That still leaves me with 681 active patients on the list right now.
Fuck admin if they think I'm not busy enough or working hard enough. This leaderboard bullshit is not on, and I am not going to participate in it. As in, they're going to make the already front desk staff keep track of even more stats than they're forcing them to, but I am outright going to tell them that I'm not going to look at that board. I'm not going to change my hours of practice when I'm already booked full from 8 am to 5 pm five days a week with a wait list to see me and not enough time to do the paperwork or letters asked of me. Because a lot of it CANNOT be punted off to the nursing staff, and they're already stuck with doing the prior auths and all the other bullshit that insurance companies and Washington wants documented.
And then people wonder why there's a deficit of doctors, let alone psychiatrists. Once they realize this is what medicine has become, they walk. There are better ways to make money.
There's a lunch meeting where administration is coming in for the Providers meeting. (Oh, how I loathe that term. I am a DOCTOR, and I'm still paying off the expensive piece of paper on the wall, WTF) They had apparently started a board to determine if primary care/walk in docs are seeing "enough" patients or if they're meeting expected quotas of patients. And if they don't, they're expected to put in more hours or days to meet that quota.
This is shaming bullshit. I said so at our department meeting, and I plan to say it again today. It's a shame when my six and a half years working here becomes the lead-in for recruiters to say that the length of time I've been here is admirable. It's a shame when I'm seen as disposable and interchangeable as my patients. Psychiatry is the redheaded stepchild of medicine, not really taken seriously until we're needed, and even then our opinions mean fuck all.
I keep a patient list. I curate it and drop the names of those no show out of the clinic or simply don't return. That still leaves me with 681 active patients on the list right now.
Fuck admin if they think I'm not busy enough or working hard enough. This leaderboard bullshit is not on, and I am not going to participate in it. As in, they're going to make the already front desk staff keep track of even more stats than they're forcing them to, but I am outright going to tell them that I'm not going to look at that board. I'm not going to change my hours of practice when I'm already booked full from 8 am to 5 pm five days a week with a wait list to see me and not enough time to do the paperwork or letters asked of me. Because a lot of it CANNOT be punted off to the nursing staff, and they're already stuck with doing the prior auths and all the other bullshit that insurance companies and Washington wants documented.
And then people wonder why there's a deficit of doctors, let alone psychiatrists. Once they realize this is what medicine has become, they walk. There are better ways to make money.