My work is now a dangerous thrill ride,
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Hospitals are not full to "Physical Capacity"
The are full to "Staffed Capacity"
the 3rd floor at Good Sam and several wards have been closed for months due to Covid and furloughed workers.
Union versus management versus government mandates. Medicine and government need a divorce. The ACA tax plan is killing medicine
Patient care comes second when there are unions involved. You will notice that as an intensivist I have 25 - 30 critically ill patients under my care, presented the exact same conditions, and yet I am not bitching about it. I am doing the best I can according to my oath.
That being said, I will tell you that NONCLINICAL ADMINISTRATORS are the scum of the scum and are part responsible for destroying health care. I worked in the C-suite for 5 years before I could not take it any longer. Watching MBAs with absolutely NO TRAINING CLINICALLY trying to direct and pressure clinicians to make sure their metrics made bonus at year end was sickening. Beyond words. Additionally, most of the clinical administrative staff is sick of medicine so they sit behind a desk and tell others what to do. None of them could practice if they tried.
Administration needs to be eliminated. Physicians and nurses need to be willing to take some responsibility, learn the rules and then it is we as clinicians that need to run hospitals and health care. Administrators that are non clinically add nothing to the overall care of the patient, reduce quality, and suck money away from the patient. In a world where $0.17 of every dollar is what is spent on patient care, we have a real problem.
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