Re: IMP docs needed for NATIONAL TV CBS - next week

[Guest guest]

happy to give my input to anyone if you need folks, pamela.  can see some of my other thoughts in other post

 

Here's the deal. We are set for a 5 minute NATIONAL TV

spot with CBS The Early Show. The producer specifically

wants an EVEN BALANCED story based on the CNN piece.

She wants doctors who are OUTRAGED at the idea and

doctors who are FOR the idea of paying patients.

This will be a on-site shoot in your office next week.

Please let me know if you are interested and I will pass

your info on to the reporter.

Remember:

1) Media begets media

2) Hit a nerve (we did that with CNN)

2) Now the conversation is growing.

(CBS and others?)

Pamela

Pamela Wible, MD

3575 St. #220

Eugene, OR 97405

www.idealmedicalcare.org

[Guest guest]

Hmmm, I'd be interested perhaps.

But, honestly, I'm not sure I fit either position. My $5 gesture is just that, a

gesture, and reflects my personal relationship with my patients in the setting

I've established here.

But I do not think it's a good idea in general for most offices. And if a

patient sent me an invoice I would feel it was a toxic act for the relationship

and ask them to also find another doctor.

As the " face " (along with Abe Lincoln) of the CNN piece, it might be good for me

to take the next step as well if for no other reason as an opportunity to

present the perspective of the need for doctors and patients to work together to

improve the core relationship upon which all of health care depends.

That said, it is a rather scary proposition ... do I get free propranolol

beforehand? ;-)

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Re: IMP docs needed for NATIONAL TV CBS - next

week

happy to give my input to anyone if you need folks, pamela. can see some of my

other thoughts in other post

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM, roxywible < roxywible@... > wrote:

Here's the deal. We are set for a 5 minute NATIONAL TV

spot with CBS The Early Show. The producer specifically

wants an EVEN BALANCED story based on the CNN piece.

She wants doctors who are OUTRAGED at the idea and

doctors who are FOR the idea of paying patients.

This will be a on-site shoot in your office next week.

Please let me know if you are interested and I will pass

your info on to the reporter.

Remember:

1) Media begets media

2) Hit a nerve (we did that with CNN)

2) Now the conversation is growing.

(CBS and others?)

Pamela

Pamela Wible, MD

3575 St. #220

Eugene, OR 97405

www.idealmedicalcare.org

[Guest guest]

Now would be a great time to instead of doing the head to head, explain the Hamster Wheel model almost always forced up most docs??? And then have some well spoken IMP'er explain how we are different but no two exactly alike????

Much better than (HUGE JOKE HERE so we stay smiley on the Holiday Weekend, another SNL....) "Jane you Ignorant Slut!!!!" :-)

To: Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 4:17 PMSubject: Re: IMP docs needed for NATIONAL TV CBS - next week

happy to give my input to anyone if you need folks, pamela. can see some of my other thoughts in other post

Here's the deal. We are set for a 5 minute NATIONAL TVspot with CBS The Early Show. The producer specificallywants an EVEN BALANCED story based on the CNN piece.She wants doctors who are OUTRAGED at the idea anddoctors who are FOR the idea of paying patients.This will be a on-site shoot in your office next week.Please let me know if you are interested and I will passyour info on to the reporter.Remember:1) Media begets media2) Hit a nerve (we did that with CNN)2) Now the conversation is growing.(CBS and others?)PamelaPamela Wible, MD3575 St. #220 Eugene, OR 97405www.idealmedicalcare.org

[Guest guest]

There will always people who run on time and those who run late.  I remember when I worked in the Royal Marsden Hospital ( tertiary referral centre for cancer ) outside of London ( UK ).  We started the ward round at 8 am and finished most days at 7 pm. The consultant would stop the ward round to answer the phone with people calling in from all over the world, stop the ward round to see patients who had turned up and so forth, or we'd head over to the histology to look at some slides during the round.  Relatives who waited with their sick relative wanting to speak to us could potentially wait for hours.

And OB often have to drop everything to rush off to deliver kids.  And other surgeons get called away to emergencies.So, it's a human condition as well as specialy related.

But think technology can ameliorate the situation.  You could have the receptionist tweet the current waiting time, or sms the next patient etc.I don't think you're going to solve it by allowing patients to bill their docs .. they're only going to poison the relationship more.  And docs will start billing patients for turning up late.

Now would be a great time to instead of doing the head to head, explain the Hamster Wheel model almost always forced up most docs??? And then have some well spoken IMP'er explain how we are different but no two exactly alike????

 

Much better than (HUGE JOKE HERE so we stay smiley on the Holiday Weekend, another SNL....) " Jane you Ignorant Slut!!!! "   :-)

 

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Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 4:17 PMSubject: Re: IMP docs needed for NATIONAL TV CBS - next week

 

happy to give my input to anyone if you need folks, pamela.  can see some of my other thoughts in other post

 

Here's the deal. We are set for a 5 minute NATIONAL TVspot with CBS The Early Show. The producer specificallywants an EVEN BALANCED story based on the CNN piece.She wants doctors who are OUTRAGED at the idea and

doctors who are FOR the idea of paying patients.This will be a on-site shoot in your office next week.Please let me know if you are interested and I will passyour info on to the reporter.Remember:

1) Media begets media2) Hit a nerve (we did that with CNN)2) Now the conversation is growing.(CBS and others?)PamelaPamela Wible, MD3575 St. #220 Eugene, OR 97405

www.idealmedicalcare.org

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