Posted on 05/29/2015 8:28:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978? he asked with a smile. I didnt, I replied.
I had no idea what was coming. I just felt Id chosen the wrong vocation.
I was reminded of this exchange upon receiving my med-school classs 40th-reunion report and reading some of the entries. In general, my classmates felt fulfilled by family, friends, and the considerable achievements of their professional lives. But there was an undercurrent of deep disappointment, almost demoralization, with what medical practice had become.
The complaint was not financial but vocational an incessant interference with their work, a deep erosion of their autonomy and authority, a transformation from physician to provider.
As one of them wrote, My colleagues who have already left practice all say they still love patient care, being a doctor. They just couldnt stand everything else. By which he meant a never-ending attack on the profession from government, insurance companies, and lawyers . . . progressively intrusive and usually unproductive rules and regulations, topped by an electronic-health-records (EHR) mandate that produces nothing more than billing and legal documents and degraded medicine.
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Well, I don't know any FL docs but here are three (among dozens) of companies offering to do exactly what you say is forbidden by the ACA:
Scribe America
EMR-Scribes
Medscape
Here's a nice description of how scribes can be used:
American Health Information Management Association
These services may not be economically viable for the docs you talk to but that doesn't mean that their use is prohibited.
Please check out the links in post 61.
Thanks for the ping!
I have an appointment with my Doctor next week. I’ll ask her again and get back to you.
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