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Mar 31, 2023 · For a physician whose identity has revolved around being ‘the good doctor’ but now is a defendant, an inner crisis brews which often goes unaddressed.
Jan 24, 2024 · Learn the signs that indicate it may be time to fire your doctor, and understand how to find and choose a new physician.
Increased oversight on physician practices may require Congressional action. But absent such intervention, it may be necessary for medical staffs and employers to take a stronger approach to discipline physicians that lack competence or who experience other issues, whether behavioral or otherwise.
Jun 4, 2024 · “Duty of care” is a fundamental principle in healthcare that applies to everyone involved in your treatment, from doctors and nurses to the hospitals themselves. Essentially, it means that they’re required to treat you with reasonable skill, care, and diligence.
- Unfavorable Demographics and Pcps Leaving The Profession
- Pcps Have Higher Burnout and Lower Pay Than Many Specialties
- Multiple Causes of Primary Care Dissatisfaction
- Time Devoted to Electronic Medical Records Is Further Impacting Burnout
- What Can Patients Do to Find A PCP?
- What Might Reverse The Primary Care Crisis?
While the COVID pandemic certainly pushed a large subset of already burned-out PCPs over the brink into semi- or full retirement, or into less stressful jobs, the current primary care crisis has been brewing for much longer. The US is expected to face a shortage of primary care physiciansranging from 21,000 to 55,000 by the year 2033. Both patients...
Primary care is getting hit harder than most specialties, due to having lower salaries, higher ratings of burnout, and a growing feeling that their job is generally impossible and thankless on all fronts. According to a 2019 physician survey, the burnout scores among PCPs were up to 79%. Many hospitals are happy to replace PCPs with even lower-paid...
Many PCPs are facing requirements by their hospitals to see a greater number of patients, who get sicker and whose care gets more complicated every year, in the face of significant salary and benefit cuts and with dwindling administrative and clinical support. PCPs have more to do at each visit, as new requirements and treatments come up, but none ...
It is estimated that for each hour a PCP spends with a patient, up to two hours of workare generated, which includes writing summary notes and treatment plans in a patient's electronic medical record (EMR) and communicating test results or other important information to patients and their caregivers. Many PCPs that I know go home at the end of crus...
If your current PCP quits or retires, ask the practice to assign you to someone new. In theory, practices aren't supposed to leave patients stranded and abandoned, even if they, like many places, don't truly have enough experienced physicians to take adequate care of patients. If that doesn't work, or if you don't feel that your new doctor is a goo...
We need to train and financially support more PCPs by encouraging trainees to go into primary care, and to eliminate the pay gap between PCPs and specialists. We need to buttress those doctors who are currently trying to stick it out as primary care doctors, so they don't cut down hours or quit. These doctors urgently need emotional, financial, log...
- Peter Grinspoon, MD
- hhp_info@health.harvard.edu
Jan 29, 2024 · The differences in the training that doctors, NPs, and PAs get before entering practice has a lot to do with how they approach patient care — and those differences can have a big impact on what...
Physician-nurse conflict, tension, and stress have been thought to be contributing factors in job dissatisfaction and burnout for nurses. Controversy arises about the reasons for physician-nurse conflict, possible solutions to this problem, and the proper relationship between physicians and nurses.
