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 …
There once was a llama of gold Whose image was one to behold The bloggers did love it And unwaveringly covet So to the new contest entrolled A haiku is sort-of a poem Though many who read them don\’t know \’em The rules are unbending From start until ending Just one added word and you …
Yea!! It\’s the time everyone has been waiting for. I even got a call from Oprah asking if I have chosen the winner (she\’s just jealous, you know). It\’s time to give away Golden Llamas!! Not so fast. This post won\’t actually award the GLA, but instead gives you all of the haikus in their …
If you got a bunch of gunk in your reader yesterday, it was because I tried a new plugin and I guess I didn\’t understand it. If you enjoyed getting all of that in your reader, then you are welcome. Here\’s a haiku to express my emotions about this: I am so sorry About the …
Welcome, oh welcome to the world of reform,Where truth is elusive, confusion the norm! Where thinking comes only in partisan form, And people, we\’re just at the start of the storm! So hear me divulge the sad story of woe. I wish I could tell you it just isn\’t so, But trouble\’s aplenty where foe …
