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<blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 3222929" data-attributes="member: 25679"><p>TRidiot, I think you are an exceptional Family Physician and I meant no disparaging comments directed toward you. What I indicated is that sometimes things don't go as planned and I think you'll admit not all physicians were A students in med school and some shouldn't even have been there. And you often have to deal with idiots and jerks for patients who are demanding, won't follow your directives to better their health and when you issue a regimen of antibiotics they'll take a few until they feel better and then put the bottle in their medicine cabinet for future use. I worked at the VA Hospital and the drug reps did create problems with 137 patients per day and four MD's. You mentioned that people doing clerical or other work spend too much time on their own activities, surfing the web, checking personal email and using their iPhones. I don't like that, there has to be someone who won't do that on company time-especially if you're paying their salary. A good office manager could fix the problem, read the rules to them when they're hired and have them sign that they have a copy and if they are found not in compliance they have so many chances and they're terminated. Surely everyone isn't like those hirelings? You see, I've worked hard in a clinical environment covering many bases and finished my job/s and there were incompetent people there also who were slow and guess what? I was asked to assist the lazy ones do their jobs also and that irritated me because we were all hired to do our jobs. I worked in Ophthalmology and did all kinds of duties from refractions to fitting glasses. I still remember a third-year resident using a laser on a patient's eye and the click-click-click of the foot pedal and "Whoops, I told you to sit still." And I haven't even scratched the surface of the cost of medical equipment you have to buy which is outdated in six months. So I understand where you are coming from and understand at least partially the situations you are encountering in your office. And when you call to find out the cost of certain things like car repair etc, don't tell them you are. physician-sometimes they'll charge you more Thant he average guy on the street because they think you have great wealth. It isn't the Docs that make the money, it's the hospitals and ancillary work-lab, biopsies, government etc. And with all the paperwork required and generated by the government it is a wonder that more physicians don't go into other vocations. Let's be friends and at least agree on some things, you may even be my physician! I know better than to go in and see you for an oil change and then ask you to check the tires and get the windshield- I think you know what that means!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John6185, post: 3222929, member: 25679"] TRidiot, I think you are an exceptional Family Physician and I meant no disparaging comments directed toward you. What I indicated is that sometimes things don't go as planned and I think you'll admit not all physicians were A students in med school and some shouldn't even have been there. And you often have to deal with idiots and jerks for patients who are demanding, won't follow your directives to better their health and when you issue a regimen of antibiotics they'll take a few until they feel better and then put the bottle in their medicine cabinet for future use. I worked at the VA Hospital and the drug reps did create problems with 137 patients per day and four MD's. You mentioned that people doing clerical or other work spend too much time on their own activities, surfing the web, checking personal email and using their iPhones. I don't like that, there has to be someone who won't do that on company time-especially if you're paying their salary. A good office manager could fix the problem, read the rules to them when they're hired and have them sign that they have a copy and if they are found not in compliance they have so many chances and they're terminated. Surely everyone isn't like those hirelings? You see, I've worked hard in a clinical environment covering many bases and finished my job/s and there were incompetent people there also who were slow and guess what? I was asked to assist the lazy ones do their jobs also and that irritated me because we were all hired to do our jobs. I worked in Ophthalmology and did all kinds of duties from refractions to fitting glasses. I still remember a third-year resident using a laser on a patient's eye and the click-click-click of the foot pedal and "Whoops, I told you to sit still." And I haven't even scratched the surface of the cost of medical equipment you have to buy which is outdated in six months. So I understand where you are coming from and understand at least partially the situations you are encountering in your office. And when you call to find out the cost of certain things like car repair etc, don't tell them you are. physician-sometimes they'll charge you more Thant he average guy on the street because they think you have great wealth. It isn't the Docs that make the money, it's the hospitals and ancillary work-lab, biopsies, government etc. And with all the paperwork required and generated by the government it is a wonder that more physicians don't go into other vocations. Let's be friends and at least agree on some things, you may even be my physician! I know better than to go in and see you for an oil change and then ask you to check the tires and get the windshield- I think you know what that means! [/QUOTE]
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