It’s also not fair to us NP’s and mid levels.
I’m an NP and I had to run the office so many times while the doc was on his big overseas two week vacation ....and I get paid likely 1/10th of what he’s being paid. Not fair. No bonus, no nothing, with all of the responsibility and liability. I did get a Dunkin Donuts gift card, though. That was big.
Needless to say, I’ve left that practice and am onto other things, thankfully.
So, it’s either pay all docs the big bucks, or pay fewer docs to do the really big specialized stuff and let the mid levels do all the general work.
Nurse Practioner?
The people who pay - the insurers - have already picked Door No. 2.
The docs aren’t happy about it. I just had to sit through a lecture from Power Doc Couple Numero Uno about how bad this will all be. I just had to smile. They brought it on themselves by trying to artificially limit their numbers and thus competition. AMA is a union and it isn’t a particularly good one.
So they just need to get with the program and be the leaders of the pack: an organized group of people with increasing levels of competence and responsiblity working as a team, and being open to discussion and collaboration instead of top down military model of management.
And that includes leveraging technology as much as possible. That will aid you and them.