I refuse to even waste time on the phone. Remember, for most of us, the only thing we have to sell is our time. Do not short-change yourself. And, in our country where lawyers prevail, treating a patient without a face-to-face encounter is too dangerous. If a patient requires my opinion, evaluation, advice or treatment, I expect to be compensated for it. Patients also want antibiotics for colds, cures for cancer, fountains of youth and erections on demand. Just because it is what a patient wants does not mean it is what they need or what they should have.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "