After nearly a year of planning my exit strategy, my final day as a hospital-employed physician was 6/30/23. How surreal to finally be independent! In a recent phone call, a dear friend and fellow physician asked what drove me to my decision. “Because I felt like a failure every day,” I disclosed to my normally …
A poem about the painful absurdities of practicing in a fee-for-service model. Published on Doctors’ Day 2023, in celebration of my impending freedom from this broken system. FFS, you atrocityWith wRVUsCruelly concocted by CMSEncoding suffering with ICD-10And compounding it endlesslyWith Z codes for SDOHAnd 7 characters to specifyEpisode of care How I do translateThe sequelae …
Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies
Oh, they tell me of a home far away
Oh, they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise
Oh, they tell me of an unclouded day
***Note from Dr. Rob: Welcome to a new addition to the blog. A HUMAN guest writer! My hope is to give a space for especially talented writers to get their stuff out there for the world to see. So this is the bio of Jacqui O’Kane, a fellow PCP who has suffered in the crushing …
