Mission: Healing, June 30, 2011

Yes, this is the last day of the year ... the last day before the new interns start. Well rested this morning, so that should help.
Dr. Mike

Mission = Healing June 29, 2011

Today, the team will be light. Our senior resident will have meetings for most of the morning and the rest of the folks are going to have to come up to speed. We will see how it goes.
Dr. Mike

Mission = Healing June 28, 2011

Meetings are pretty worthless these days. They appear to be places where people who don't take care of patients spend their time. So, they (these folks) need to have more meetings to justify their job, aka existence and pay. My solution to that problem is simple ... No clinical work, no administrative work = no teaching work = no pay & no clinical work = no job. Minimum clinical work for health care providers should be 20% of total hours worked.
Most of the stuff discussed in our meeting today could have been done by computers with a little human help. I saw at least three and as many as 10 people at this early morning meeting who virtually NEVER take care of patients. Maybe they should work elsewhere, or in some other business?
Dr. Mike

Mission = Healing

Today, after rounds, while writing notes, one of our discussions centered around advanced directives ... our own individual advanced directives. As a teaching exercise, I asked one of our residents to bring his advanced directives in order to read the exact language he would use to describe what he wants done in the event of a cervical spine injury with quadriplegia. It's easy to talk about, but not that easy to do. To get the exact language ... the language that will tell providers and especially exactly what you want done under all circumstances. Try it ...
Dr. Mike
To be continued ...

Day Job Doc

My life has been dedicated to healing.
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Let's see what today brings.
Dr. Mike

Testing

I am just starting this blog thing. Will probably need help to figure it out.
Dr. Mike