Home Forums Discussions Problems DEEP THOUGHHTS by Walter Handy

Clearly defined roles based on actual strengths and weaknesses ala she is the doc but you went to all the PM meetings and learned medical and contract laws from the consultants so you are the leader there and you both have to share a be cool with the other looking over your shoulder making sure your part jives with the other person's part. I have a right to look at any chart or note to make sure she is not coding weird, leaving money in the exam room or running afoul of rules and laws... She has a right to question my understanding of such things and her medical judgement although she may use me to bounce things off of me because it is fun and needed to knock things around, clearly she is the doc with all the training and her medical judgement unless clearly sick with a 105 degree flu is final.

Trust including when challenging or discussing things that it is always for your best interests be it to be safe, make more safe money or in the practice and patients best interests... Comfort and respect, mixed with some hugs and love.... Trust me we have been business partners in two different industries and the trust and ability to laugh and love it off, to compromise and care is super key...

Now Yes women do care more, spend more time, and they actually get and are used sometimes in many practices as the Dumping Ground for the long messed up needy tissue box visits. So the women don't hit productivity seeing only one or two really tough level 4's in an hour while the men get to rock out 4 to 6 level 3's and 4's in that same hour.... Guess who wins in the hourly rate and who catches hell even as the co-workers keeping using the women as the garbage dump for those difficult emotional psychological cases...

Also many times women chart differently and with more detail with less just get it done kind of who gives a rat's behind that the guy's do.... I might also suggest from experience to consider something like this burnout or something else interfering with "Focus" and the ability to get things done. You mentioned burn out I believe so this could be a residual problem leftover from that... Focus is so key and if lost it can mess with a good doc with all this busy work to do like plague. My wife is a fall behind charter too, so I so totally get it....

Paul