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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cut back to 24hr a week now that med school loans are paid off. Enjoying having a life again. I’d work 40 hours if patients weren’t so miserable and management didn’t try to cram my schedule way past full.[/quote]

What makes the patients miserable? I mean, specifics in terms of behavior thet shouldn't be doing. [/quote]

Just angry about wait times in the office (that I can’t control), having a lot of things that they “insist “ on being tested for despite it not being relevant for their symptoms - and some tests will yield a lot of false positives if you test everyone for them. It sounds wrong- like, “if I test positive, and the test is 99% accurate, then it’s a real positive!” but google the Bayes Theorum and you’ll see that’s actually wrong. But patients INSIST on testing for things. And it muddies the waters and makes my job harder and doesn’t make their symptoms go away because now they’re convinced they have, for example, chronic Lyme disease and they won’t consider that their fatigue is actually probably from sleep apnea or depression. Anyways I’m ranting. [/quote]

None of that sounds miserable to me. It sounds human. It sounds like humans who are struggling and are asking doctors to help them feel better. [/quote]

If you saw 16 patients like that each day, every day, you would definitely find it miserable.[/quote]

Let's be frank about this. It isn't 16 patients. It's 16 patients [i]in person[/i], plus the 4 phone calls and 5 portal messages from patients each of whom has just one simple question but also by the way while I have you on the line a few other things, plus figuring out the preapprovals for another couple of patients. Which would be fine, but of course none of this comes to you in an organized way -- it's just people who are scared and suffering, so of course they don't ask the real question (is it cancer? is he having seizures?) until the very end of an unrelated visit, or someone else has already made you run over an so this person is tight-lipped and angry because "doctors these days" and "I should charge you for [i]my[/i] time," and it's not like you even disagree with them but there is this avalanche and it just keeps coming every day every day every day.

16 patients like this, plus.[/quote]

This reminds me of Seinfeld’s “ because the mail never stops”
[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL6ubXD9ZjY[/youtube][/quote]

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