Have you heard what physicians are saying?
Posted By: Are you joking? on 2009-08-12
In Reply to: Bottom line... - MT
Even docs themselves are saying that they have to double or triple-book appointments now just to meet the rising costs and overhead. How is that not effecting patient care? I may not have ever had a doc that walked out of a surgery halfway through, but I have had a doc actually say to me when I asked about diabetes education, 'Just don't eat a lot of carbs.' I had just been diagnosed with type 2 DM and had all sorts of questions, but he was in too much of a hurry because he had a waiting room full of people. He didn't even tell me what medication he was giving me, just said I could pick it up at the desk and got angry when I pushed for answers. Is that quality?
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Ha! Indian physicians used to do MT!
Maybe they still do???
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Of course it's possible that everything has changed there since then.
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I heard about it from my
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I heard.....
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I heard that from an MT there, too, and...
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Heard about that
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No, not heard anything.
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Last I heard sm
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I heard sm
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Consider yourself heard!! You can do this....
nose to the grindstone... take a deep breath... loved your ending!
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WE WANT TO BE HEARD!!!
We work ourselves for hours on end, get cheated for lines but get yelled at to do more more more. There are sometimes better ways but the head honchos want to make all the decisions.
In other fields companies allow their employees to provide input, suggestions, have round table discussions, powwows, whatever but in this field we get the orders from the power hungry managers who in many cases don't have nearly the experience or training that the MT's have. That is disheartening too.
We are not allowed a voice, we are not treated like people, only a number. Do this do this, type type type but don't ask for anything, do as you're told and don't ask questions. We know what's best because we have a title by our names. That is total bull malarky.
So what we want is to be heard. That is why you see negative comments here. The majority of the MTSO's don't care about our ideas. In fact they don't even share other MT's names or schedules or emails sometimes for fear that they will try to have a life away from the MTSO. What is wrong with having telephone discussions or get togethers somehow without being yelled at or something that does not even pertain to you or listen to some managers sound like idiots?
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