Posted by Racer on January 11, 2004, at 1:41:43
Right now, I have a choice of one doctor. I've check the state med board, with nothing useful returned. How about a page on your site to discuss level of care, quality of care, patients perspective, and maybe invite pdocs to use it as a reference for what their patients go through? Even something as simple as an inability to navigate a telephone routing service can have a pretty devastating effect on us, and, in my own opinion which I'm obviously biased towards, a place where they can find out a little more from a patient's point of view -- and maybe even offer their own responses -- might be a boon to the doctors, as well as the patients.
By the way, Dr Bob, having gone through the paperwork for approval as a provider for Continuing Professional Education and Manditory Continuing Legal Education, and the certification to provide other certification for CPE from other boards, I can tell you two things: cheap and easy access to CPE is very, very, very popular; and the approval process in each case was both simple and straightforward. Applications had easy options to qualify for approval with relatively little work on our part.
Is this something anyone here is interested in? I'd be really interested in having feedback from the other side of the desk on some of my concerns regarding my pdoc's demeanor, approach, and apparent inability to return a call himself when he can have someone else do it for him. To the extent that it takes three or four telephone calls to get simple information to him -- "I can't walk since day 3 of the meds" -- "He wants to know [x]" -- etc. Seems to me, if he called himself, we could have gotten it all out of the way in two minutes, tops, and without someone else having to call me, get a partial answer, disturb him, call me back again, disturb him again, and so on. I'd love to hear another doctor's view on this, even though I can come up with a dozen explanations myself -- not all of them negative.
Whatcha think? Worthwhile?
poster:Racer
thread:299272
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