tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post8970408840717335449..comments2023-11-02T08:54:33.024-07:00Comments on Throckmorton's other signs: RVU=0Throckmortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362147065452723155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post-67618171278552681532008-02-23T14:55:00.000-08:002008-02-23T14:55:00.000-08:00Oh! What does RVU=0 mean?Oh! What does RVU=0 mean?SeaSprayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07906503090688697222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post-72628004690530686912008-02-23T14:54:00.000-08:002008-02-23T14:54:00.000-08:00I have been reading the medblogs since October 06 ...I have been reading the medblogs since October 06 and I have learned so much about PMDs, hospitals and the health care concerns/looming crisis. <BR/><BR/>Even though I worked in a hospital and around docs for 20 years...I never heard the in depth conversations on the topics that are brought to light in the medical blogosphere. Sure I heard the PMDs complain about ins plans. I know one surgeon who was breaking his contract and being sued by the insurance company.<BR/><BR/>Personally, this girl thinks you private docs should get paid just for getting up at 3am and having to come out into the cold dark nite. I hate that you have the potential for being sued when you are trying to help someone. Most people have no idea what dues you have paid to achieve your success and maintain it. Nor do they know the challenges you face on all fronts just to practice your chosen profession or the long hours. Or the interruptions to your private life. or that for surgeons and ER docs the declining insurance reimbursements. (I think you docs have to unite somehow and take a stand against the ins. companies)Sure...you have good salaries but most people wouldn't be willing to work as hard as you have and do. <BR/><BR/>I trust the rewards far outweigh the negatives. I hope so. For instance, it must be an awesome feeling to know you have facilitated healing in a difficult case where it appeared the pt wouldn't get better. I am happy to say my urodoc did just that and I shall be forever grateful to him. :) Or to save a life? You have such an awesome and amazing responsibility.<BR/><BR/>I also thought you (I mean collectively)got payed by the hospitals to take call. And I thought you wanted to because you also get new patients that way. I guess the snafu is the increasingly self pay population.<BR/><BR/>I am so grateful that my urodocs were there to take call when I was an ER pt! Wouldn't that be dangerous for the pt if a specialist is required and there is no one to take call to help the pt requiring a particular specialty? What if everyone does that? I would not go to an ER if I knew they could not get on call docs to come in. I don't blame the docs but something has to give. Never heard of Pete Stark and so I looked it up -interesting. Intended for good but lawyers found loopholes and it backfired.<BR/><BR/>Funny what you said about the "fit of ketone smelling vomit that I was afraid would catch fire." :)SeaSprayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07906503090688697222noreply@blogger.com