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[quote=Anonymous]I couldn’t take it and I quit.

I’m a physician in a non-patient facing speciality, and joined a new group that - seriously - had communications via Teams, email (which all went out to all 19 of us because the admin couldn’t be bothered to figure out which doctor was taking care of a specific patient) , text, pager, land-line phones, and epic chat.

It was just all binging and beeping and interruptions all day long.

And the administrators would freak out and file a complaint that you were “not respecting” their time if you didn’t answer all of their dumb messages within 1 hour.

I could get no work done until after 5, and was doing most of my work 5-10 PM. But then the oncologists would yell that their patients were finding out on MyChart that they had a mass at 9:30 PM because I released a case, and told us to only release cases 9-4:30. But I was too busy reading/investigating/responding to the 200+ messages I got every day to work during normal hours.

It was insane.
I quit for a position as a director of a group. When I got there I told them no Teams - if you want to chat for fun, feel free to text each other cute dog/park/kid pics, but not on my freaking work channel. If there is an interesting study or paper, use our weekly group meeting to bring it up.
We also have an auto-reply up when we are on a busy service that says we may not respond in a timely fashion. If it’s an emergency then we get a phone call/page - after the admin figures out the correct doctor to call - none of this garbage where 12 of us are pestered and interrupted because of one study that needs to be rushed.

So, sorry - no advice other than quit & become the boss and set new rules.
And I swear that Teams is a plague on our society. That noise it makes to alert you of an incoming message now actually makes my heart rate go up![/quote]

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