I think it’s always been this way, but most docs stay long enough and become immune to the problems and just shrug off the negative aspects, drink the kool aid, and count down the days until they get vested and are ready for retirement. But big brother is always watching and if you’re okay with a puppeteer pulling your strings 24-7, I guess it can work for the right person. Things became harder when the inbox was introduced with EPIC and of course when the Affordable Care Act mandated that Medicaid patients must be seen, which overburdened your already full panel of patients. Being asked quarterly to call your Medicaid patients to “check in” and make an appointment was annoying lol, I felt like that that was the role of a secretary or medical assistant, not something I should be doing.
Really depends on region I guess and also office you work for, but other people I talked to at other locations all sort of say the same thing: Kaiser is too big for it’s own good and someone somewhere just dumps all the work on someone else, that attitude trickles down, and you as a doc get frustrated, the patients get frustrated, etc etc etc. The worst are the snotty docs who are in leadership roles, collect a higher salary than you, see one patient once a month to maintain their “clinical” status, and develop “educational” programming for you to attend and if you miss one b/c of any reason, you’re reported to your director for being non-complaint. I think the best and brightest docs do not work for Kaiser bc they see through all the BS. Honestly it’s the mediocre and lazy affff docs who stay and work at Kaiser bc they’re comfortable at doing the least amount of work with little to no repercussions ( but as long as you do those mandatory modules , you’re golden!) lol. *no hate for my fellow peers who work at Kaiser lol, but they know what I mean, ask anyone who works at Kaiser what they’re directors and supervisors are like, and they’ll all tell you the same thing: no one cares about you, and if you complain, lol good luck on that next performance review…