Recent content by VA Hopeful Dr

In my area private insurance pays significantly better than any Medicare plan even with the new G-Code.

Medicare only at this point. Using it heavily. We're getting paid for it.

Make sure your pictures don't contain PHI...

Because not every psychiatrist does those.

When I can get a patient in to see a dermatologist in less than 4 months within an hour radius, then I'll believe the job market is anything approaching concerning

Because med schools job is to teach you the basics of being a doctor. That's more than enough to be getting on with. They also don't teach you billing/coding, politics of medicine, practice laws, malpractice cases, or any of a number of things that physicians in the real world deal with...

Is anything in law 100% cut and dry? Not a lawyer, FP for 14 years. None of my noncompetes or my wife's (IM) have been onerous at all, but maybe we're just lucky.

Depends on your definition of punitive and arbitrary

Or those judges follow the law in the states where they work...

The bold is the important part. Some states don't allow non-competes at all. Some allow them but are easy to get thrown out if too restrictive. Some states allow them pretty much no matter how restrictive they are. Its nice that your area is one that doesn't enforce them (seriously, that...

It is absolutely not for everyone. Most of us don't want to spend an hour talking with each patient.

Fair point, although as a guy half way through with the quarterly questions I don't know why you'd take the exam route. That said I don't really want to have to do this twice as often (since cost isn't an issue with the quarterly questions).

Cost is unchanged so not sure how this is a new or different money grab.

State dependant

Nah, I've said many times that FM has the best job market in the country. I can put my finger randomly in any part of the continental US and find a FM job within 15 miles (maybe 30 in the larger midwest states) without even trying that hard.