Re: Quadruple-Booked & 8-Hour Waits - Clarification

[Guest guest]

To clarify (I posted this at midnight and it never came up):

1) Purpose of my video was to highlight what one woman

did billing her doctors who were in the wrong. (Therapist

who put another person in for her hour-long appt and paid her

and gyn arriving 40 min late to work) Every doc I have spoken with

agrees that they would do something similar had they screwed up.

Time to end the double standard of having no show and cancel fees

that only apply to patients if doctors do the same.

2) I do see CNN piece as a conversation starter. I have no control

obviously with how they slant the piece. It's for public consumption

and not meant specifically to help doctors fix their own woes.

The title of Cohen's column is THE EMPOWERED PATIENT

not THE LIBERATED DOCTOR (as Malia pointed out to me on a

phone call this weekend). I believe that empowered patients

will lead to empowered doctors, liberated doctors will lead to liberated

patients. We are all in this together.

As fas as when to mention IMPs or IMP map: This can work in the

reverse where I do NOT mention IMP map and the article turns out

very PRO doctor and other docs interviewed get their name and

map out there and are seen as the go-to group. And iMPs miss out.

Media is unpredictable. Gotta have thick skin. MLK says " The arc of the

moral universe in long, but it bends toward justice. " I believe in the dream.

Pamela

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> > From CNN comments:

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> > I once was waiting a long time in my doctors office and there

> > were a lot of people waiting. I started asking people what time

> > their appt was for and it turned out there were 4 of us with the

> > same appt time. I switched doctors.

> >

> > and another . . .

> >

> > I once had regular appointments with a specialist that involved

> > waits of at least two hours. I got to know the other patients in

> > the room pretty well. There was the guy who was a Mason and

> > did all of his studying in this docs waiting room. There was the

> > patient whose wife drove him. The waits were so long that she

> > would drop him off, go see a movie, check in, see another movie

> > and so on. The last straw was when I had a 1PM appointment and

> > didn't see the doc till 9PM. Yes, I felt like a chump but this was

> > the guy that was in network. I complained to my family physician

> > and got re-referred. On my first visit to him, my wait was 12

> > minutes and the doc apologized all over the place. I could hardly

> > stop laughing as I told him the bar wasn't very high.

> >

> > There is so much frustration (rightfully so) out there. Now is the

> > time for deeper conversation. This topic really hits a nerve for

> > everyone which is why it is such a good news story.

> >

> > Pamela

> >

> > Pamela Wible, MD

> > 3575 St. #220

> > Eugene, OR 97405

> >

> > www.idealmedicalcare.org

> >

> > " (S)He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. "

> > ~ Coleridge

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> >

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