Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.
Two shots to get the party started. Now, a Mind Eraser. Club soda poured slowly over vodka, poured slowly over Kahlua. No mixing. Yummy, and interesting. But I like mixed drinks better than layered drinks.
Had a monumentally awful day in clinic. No bad patients, no bad cases, just my vaunted time management plans shot to hell the minute we opened. The doofuses in the call center dumped four full physical exams on my schedule, none of them in the slots that make time management easy. My first patient was late, needed an interpreter, and ran into some insurance problems during registration. So I was an hour behind schedule by the time my first visit started.
The day only went downhill from there.
I need a drink. Fortunately, I have one. Hope you do too. Looking forward to a relaxing weekend.
I love you all…
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During the summer, the peds office would be crazy busy with school, sports, and camp physicals. Instead of our day starting at 9:00 AM as it did the rest of the year, the first patient would be booked for 8:30 to get in a few extra time slots across our 3 locations. The problem with that was that the 8:30 patient would typically show up AT 8:30, and not usually be ready to be examined until at least 8:50, so I'd be playing catch up all day.
For many years, the practice did not schedule patients with particular providers, just into open time slots. Whoever got done first would go to the next room, and you never knew who or what you'd be seeing. Each of our 3 locations would have 2 of us working, and did what they called "3 across scheduling" - 3 patients in each time slot, with the presumption that at least one of the appointments would be a quickie. That was almost never true, and would be another reason I'd almost always be behind. If you schedule 3 patients at 9:00, for sure one of them is not going to be seen at 9:00. I have no idea why they did this, it sucked, and I was happy when they gave it up and went to a dedicated schedule.
Not a coffee drinker, so I wouldn't care for a Mind Eraser, but I do like the name.
Are there support groups for burned-out medical providers?
I have such tremendous respect for you and the things you have done in your career in health.
