Your post could not have come at a more timely moment. Thank you for your honesty and openness. I like many other physicians and practitioners commenting on this post also have had my fair share of frustration with hospital and medical admin. Unfortunately this is leading to a higher rate of burnout. I am only 4 years Post fellowship and…
Your post could not have come at a more timely moment. Thank you for your honesty and openness. I like many other physicians and practitioners commenting on this post also have had my fair share of frustration with hospital and medical admin. Unfortunately this is leading to a higher rate of burnout. I am only 4 years Post fellowship and I am already burning out. Mainly the problem seems to come from administrators and even physician department heads who are acting primarily in the interest of revenue or their own specialty perspective.
I am a relatively recently trained epileptologist (neurologist specializing in seizures). To the surprise and dismay of myself and other "fresh out of fellowship" new providers, we are finding challenges being told how to take care of patients 1) by people not trained in our field (our department head is a neurosurgeon who has told me when a continuous EEG should be indicated....), 2) having expectations to administer expensive treatments to boost revenue against our preferred practices and judgement (I e. Aducanumab) 3) base expectations on patient care from retiring or retired "senior" providers whose standard of care and practices never left the 1970s. (Ok that last one was a bit harsh but I get tired explaining why I get so many EEGs for my patients who carry a diagnosis of "petite mal" epilepsy at age 20, now 20 years later are still on phenytoin...).
So rant aside, thank you for your honesty. I wish more admin were like you. Thank you for helping remind us to respect, be grateful and appreciate your work! I hope that we physicians can also have some respect that our clinical knowledge may be helpful too. (Oh and by the way, always call me by my first name. To paraphrase Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo: "Dr Valenti is my father."
Your post could not have come at a more timely moment. Thank you for your honesty and openness. I like many other physicians and practitioners commenting on this post also have had my fair share of frustration with hospital and medical admin. Unfortunately this is leading to a higher rate of burnout. I am only 4 years Post fellowship and I am already burning out. Mainly the problem seems to come from administrators and even physician department heads who are acting primarily in the interest of revenue or their own specialty perspective.
I am a relatively recently trained epileptologist (neurologist specializing in seizures). To the surprise and dismay of myself and other "fresh out of fellowship" new providers, we are finding challenges being told how to take care of patients 1) by people not trained in our field (our department head is a neurosurgeon who has told me when a continuous EEG should be indicated....), 2) having expectations to administer expensive treatments to boost revenue against our preferred practices and judgement (I e. Aducanumab) 3) base expectations on patient care from retiring or retired "senior" providers whose standard of care and practices never left the 1970s. (Ok that last one was a bit harsh but I get tired explaining why I get so many EEGs for my patients who carry a diagnosis of "petite mal" epilepsy at age 20, now 20 years later are still on phenytoin...).
So rant aside, thank you for your honesty. I wish more admin were like you. Thank you for helping remind us to respect, be grateful and appreciate your work! I hope that we physicians can also have some respect that our clinical knowledge may be helpful too. (Oh and by the way, always call me by my first name. To paraphrase Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo: "Dr Valenti is my father."