Hot, we broke the record of over 40+ days with over 100 degrees. A relief for diminishing mosquitos population and no bat around. That life Bert, bats been hiding from the heat here in Dallas.
Yeah, we are going to Vegas for fun in a couple weeks and hope to win something large enough to quit 'family' practice. I have been more active in the clinic and saw slight improvements... thanks
I told one of my new staff, a premed graduated, that it is ok for female to enter medicine but need to aim for working part time only. Yes, I am old and stubborn. To work part time, either to have lots of money, no medicine student loan, or our life partner makes more than enough then more money put into bank account won't bring in more satisfaction.
Practically I think most of us obsess with money else medicine practice is not that bad even with EMR.
Bert you might change my post title again to 'life/work/money not balance' ...
So talking about money, if you accept Medicare, please do not afraid to use AC6, despite all those neg posts out there.
Have you not read my other post in 'general discussion', '18 big ones for dummy', we did launch our AC6 in June and registered EMR with Medicare. I just read today that for first year you don't have to achieve the meaningful use target to receive 18K. So doing your best for 90 days and generate the meaningful reports. If you wait then you would miss this year money, only 4 more mos. Compare this meaningful hassle with treating difficult patients then you would feel much better. 40 bucks in your pocket to treat one difficult patient (other 40 bucks gone into administrative cost) compared to 18K in 90 days, 200 bucks a day.
Our PCs setup are simple and I did not buy ready to run PCs. Installed from scratch including OS. We did experience some slowdown with AC6 then I upgraded all our PCs with better CPUs, single core to double cores or more, one gig memory to two gigs, still using integrated video. Only my doc opens Eprescribing, she got two tablets and one desktop, and she is not complaining.
