Recent content by VenusinFurs

I’m so glad things are better, and that you and her were able to come to a compromise and a way to improve her well being. Being a young human being is difficult and I felt some folks were being a bit harsh to her in this thread, because it is one of the most difficult things in the world to...

My first two jobs out of residency were at FQHCs, and basically my experiences are: -The loan repayments are limited in number through the nhsc and if you are granted one the work requirements are very stringent, you are only allowed to take x number of days off in a year and if you exceed...

The patient note is full of information HR doesn’t need to know and generally does not address the actual matter HR is concerned with, the length of absence. Unless you put how long you expect the patient to be out in your notes, which I typically don’t, but it does not change the fact the...

Yeah so apply some basic empathy here. Yes, as a doctor you are given many challenges that others may not have. But imagine if you got very sick and needed time off or had some other reason such as maternity to need fmla and the doctor you saw refused to do fmla paperwork for you. You at least...

Even for a family doc, in current year, this is insulting af. I would block their number and look elsewhere.

I haven’t worked for Kaiser but I bought a Kaiser plan on the California health exchange this year and am switching to western health advantage. My experience is I have not been able to get in to my pcp because the appointments are spread really far apart and I was unable to find any parking at...

Yeah no thanks

Idk about legal but like if you are a doctor because you want to help people stay healthy, job loss due to a temporary disability likely will have health consequences for the patient. I think setting boundaries that a dedicated visit is needed, charging a nominal fee if allowed, setting...

Touch grass, eat grass, don’t smoke too much grass

Haven’t you studied the tarot section of the dsm?

As a family doctor who trained in the state of Maine and worked there for many years, we don’t really have many psychiatrists up there and if I had a kid who is doing well on an antipsychotic or mood stabilizing antiepileptic with no established psychiatrist, I feel it would be malpractice for...

I think if you are enjoying your current classes and finding them fascinating you probably have a good motivator to continue, and I think you would be doing a disservice to yourself to drop out in that case that would cause you to resent her immensely. It does sound like she is struggling with...

I’m a family doctor who wandered into this thread because I was thinking about ai and wanted to rant, and now I have more numbers to support my hypothesis that podiatrists are based.

This seems normal for big orgs except: I have never gotten paid for nursing home rounds or taking students. The Medicare annual really can not be done just by the physician in 20 minutes. They need to have nurses completing most of the work for you (the mini mental, fall scale, depression...

A funny thing is I remember an ai thread from over ten years ago where I argued that we weren’t even close to the point where an ai could perform a simple procedure like draining an abscess, and someone authoritatively replied that this was a bad example because draining an abscess is so basic...