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Posted by Racer on January 11, 2004, at 1:41:43
Right now, I have a choice of one doctor. I've check the state med board, with nothing useful returned. How about a page on your site to discuss level of care, quality of care, patients perspective, and maybe invite pdocs to use it as a reference for what their patients go through? Even something as simple as an inability to navigate a telephone routing service can have a pretty devastating effect on us, and, in my own opinion which I'm obviously biased towards, a place where they can find out a little more from a patient's point of view -- and maybe even offer their own responses -- might be a boon to the doctors, as well as the patients.
By the way, Dr Bob, having gone through the paperwork for approval as a provider for Continuing Professional Education and Manditory Continuing Legal Education, and the certification to provide other certification for CPE from other boards, I can tell you two things: cheap and easy access to CPE is very, very, very popular; and the approval process in each case was both simple and straightforward. Applications had easy options to qualify for approval with relatively little work on our part.
Is this something anyone here is interested in? I'd be really interested in having feedback from the other side of the desk on some of my concerns regarding my pdoc's demeanor, approach, and apparent inability to return a call himself when he can have someone else do it for him. To the extent that it takes three or four telephone calls to get simple information to him -- "I can't walk since day 3 of the meds" -- "He wants to know [x]" -- etc. Seems to me, if he called himself, we could have gotten it all out of the way in two minutes, tops, and without someone else having to call me, get a partial answer, disturb him, call me back again, disturb him again, and so on. I'd love to hear another doctor's view on this, even though I can come up with a dozen explanations myself -- not all of them negative.
Whatcha think? Worthwhile?
Posted by fayeroe on January 11, 2004, at 14:49:36
In reply to suggestion for new board: ethics and info, posted by Racer on January 11, 2004, at 1:41:43
I'm going to answer your questions...or actually comment on what you said about phone calls. I was married to the busiest surgeon in this part of the Southwest for 16 years. I also worked in healthcare. We had a listed number in the phone book. Our home phone number to be exact. We were never too busy to talk to people and answer questions. There is something inherently wrong with someone who has someone else relay information that directly effects a patient's well-being. I can't imagine you staying with someone that has so little regard for your mental health. I'm sorry if that seems harsh, but you deserve better. Doesn't he expect his check in a timely manner? Or does he have to call YOU three or four times to get it? I seriously doubt that he would retain you as a patient if you treated him the way he is treating you!
Posted by Racer on January 11, 2004, at 16:41:12
In reply to Re: suggestion for new board: ethics and info » Racer, posted by fayeroe on January 11, 2004, at 14:49:36
heheh... See, that's the view from private practice. I can't get medical insurance because my depression is a pre-existing condition that the insurance companies say makes me too high risk for coverage. Great, huh? Those who most need medical care can't get medical insurance, and none of the private practice doctors in my area *accept* self pay patients. The county system is -- well, a county system. Since I've been uninsured long enough to have experienced several county systems, I don't expect premium care from anyone anymore, but it would be nice to get competant care -- or even to feel as if the doctor had any stake at all in improving my condition.
I do thank you for your words, though. Not only am I grateful to you for taking the time to write them, I'm also grateful to you for reminding me that there really are good people in this world.
(I have, actually, called my dentist at home in an emergency. Never a doctor, though. My dentist -- whom I've been seeing since his practicum year at dental school -- is a saint and an angel. He even saw me on a Sunday, once, for an emergency. THAT's a practitioner who cares about his patients, and I've stayed with him despite the two hour drive to his office.)
Thank you again.
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