[optimal] Re: Workload Demands
- From: "Lori Guerette" <COPCPhotography@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:54:59 -0500
Ideally they should be left alone. Docs agree there, but trying to convince
the patient and family that new glasses and a magic pill/shot just won't
bring back the vision, ...
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From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:34 AM
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Subject: [optimal] Re: Workload Demands
Workload vs reimbursement? seems 97 yo end stage ARMD with CF4' should
be left alone.
On 3/26/12, Marshall E Tyler <marshalletyler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Like Anton, except for being in a 3 photographer, 2 location practice, the
> patient & procedure load kept increasing.
> IF equipment were to never go down, and nobody was sick or on holiday,
and
> there were no OR cases, publication images, or drug studies, and no lunchs
> to be eaten, nor potty needs, then all was good.
> Days with 2 photographers could keep up with 100+ procedures. Days with
one
> photographer and 85+ procedures and 10 hour days were not uncommon.
> There is an expression about abusing race horses: "Run hard and put up
> wet."
> There is a point where not only photographers are abused, but patients
> receive sub-par studies.
> How to address this balance of appropriate staffing could be a topic for
> OPS meetings.
> Thank you,
> Marshall
> Marshall E. Tyler, CRA, FOPS, 40 years of service, Retired!
> via Verizon Android Phone
>
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> From: "Anton Drew" <anton.drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2012 3:29 am
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