Wow, everyone is validating all my issues:
No more meetings.
Knowing my day is 8AM to 5PM (and then 5PM until ??? for paperwork -- but still)
No more worries about ED calls. I would still get them, but I would just say I have don't have privileges. Please give "the privilege" to someone else.
I, too, would hate starting someone on Flovent and Singulair or Risperdal only to have them come back on Advair, but that would be the price I would pay.
It's inevitable that one day the hospitalists will be the only one allowed. It happened with the PICU and NICU. God forbid if I even visit a patient there -- they are convinced that I will tell the patient that the dopamine drip is not necessary or too high. Granted they probably can't stop me from admitting if I have privileges, but they can change the rules so that I have to see the patient within 15 minutes or something crazy like that.
On another note which is kind of funny -- my previous partner who is now retired -- went to courtesy privileges. I told him to use it just for pediatric admissions on the pediatric floor, but he went nuts still admitting his newborns. Used up his limit within two weeks. He just never listened to me.
And, you KNOW how I never have any opinions. LOL.
I love you guys. It's all about the solo doc trying to survive in a solo world. Isn't there a song about that? Paul? Anyone?
