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30,000 feet... who else you wanna call?? (Get it?)
Not Ghostbusters! This MD clearly doesn’t know about the real “emergencies” at 2am…30,000 feet... who else you wanna call?? (Get it?)
My goodness you guys are entertaining… you know, as well as I do that many providers in our profession, VA and non-VA, deal with a high levels of comorbidity. There are just as many VA and non-VA that have positioned themselves where they don’t deal with life and death situations. The profession provides options that allow exposure to the full scope of care according to the individuals desires. This is what APMA points to, the ability to shape your career in a way that limits your exposure to seriously ill patients. Transplant and other surgeons as well as many of the medical...
Another MD infiltration! Our memes are too fire!30,000 feet... who else you wanna call?? (Get it?)
Confucius says:Another MD infiltration! Our memes are too fire!
Dental forum doesnt have memes. Just endless W-2 screenshots, existential dread from too many days with their wives, and nonstop complaints that golfing 20 days a month somehow still isn’t enoughNot gonna lie I went looking into the dental forum today to see if they have a meme thread. They don’t. Instead their bad jobs are working 10 days a month for 250k.
Be wary if you seek to gaze into the abyss
We don’t like toes we like moneyView attachment 406818
does this count as a podiatry meme? it says the word “toes” u guys like toes right
Some days you DPM life. Some days life DPMs you.I thought DPM meant double penetration meme
I can't meme that on the board
Patient comes in with “Painful Eyes Moving TOES Syndrome”View attachment 406818
does this count as a podiatry meme? it says the word “toes” u guys like toes right
Optho getting a hospital consult?Patient comes in with “Painful Eyes Moving TOES Syndrome”
Podiatry: “Time to schedule a 2am toe amp.”
Ophtho: “Sounds like an urgent eye consult.”
Neuro: “Classic. Time to guess what’s actually going on.”
Ortho bro: “This **** better not be above the ankle.”
All of us: “Whatever it is, at least we can bill for it.”
Ah yes, true interprofessional collaboration in action.
Like bruh, keep them words out ya mouthOptho getting a hospital consult?
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Patient comes in with “Painful Eyes Moving TOES Syndrome”
Podiatry: “Time to schedule a 2am toe amp.”
Ophtho: “Sounds like an urgent eye consult.”
Neuro: “Classic. Time to guess what’s actually going on.”
Ortho bro: “This **** better not be above the ankle.”
All of us: “Whatever it is, at least we can bill for it.”
Ah yes, true interprofessional collaboration in action.
They do that to our urologist all the time… he and his wife just left our health care desert. Ever hear of a urologist taking “FREE” call? Then a 26 yo nurse threatening to report him to the board? Nicest guy ever. No matter what specialty we are victims to idiots in the hospital.I actually remember my last hospital consult. A hospital in my area waited until it was after hours so they could bypass our desk. It was for an inpatient and I had no privileges there - I told them where and how hard they could shove it.
I’m convinced they use Google to make their ophtho call chart since I was told that I was on their schedule and that I had multiple weeks coming up.
I'm stealing thisNo matter what specialty we are victims to idiots in the hospital.
God damn that nurse is dumb.They do that to our urologist all the time… he and his wife just left our health care desert. Ever hear of a urologist taking “FREE” call? Then a 26 yo nurse threatening to report him to the board? Nicest guy ever. No matter what specialty we are victims to idiots in the hospital.
They do that to our urologist all the time… he and his wife just left our health care desert. Ever hear of a urologist taking “FREE” call? Then a nurse threatening to report him to the board? Nicest guy ever. No matter what specialty we are victims to idiots in the hospital.
Strenuously disagree. Like 75% of DPMs (my estimate), I'm just a peon working in a lowly private practice office with no financial arrangement with the hospital. Just because my patient decides to show up to the hospital at 6pm on a Friday, this does not obligate me to rearrange my evening and weekend plans simply to facilitate patient throughput. If they are too stupid to figure out what to do with a purulent toe until Monday, the CMO needs to have a conversation with the general/orthopedic/vascular surgeons receiving a $5k/week call stipend about what they're being paid to do and maybe they're the ones to be lectured about patient abandonment.First, if it’s a call about your patient, it’s your patient. Not responding could be considered abandonment.
The person in the story was an MD. So abandonment could absolutely could apply to them in this scenario. First question to ask yourself isn't will I be paid for taking this call, but will I be sued and possibly lose if I don't. I don't know how it works for DPMs in terms of patient ownership but definitely could be the case for a urologist.Strenuously disagree. Like 75% of DPMs (my estimate), I'm just a peon working in a lowly private practice office with no financial arrangement with the hospital. Just because my patient decides to show up to the hospital at 6pm on a Friday, this does not obligate me to rearrange my evening and weekend plans simply to facilitate patient throughput. If they are too stupid to figure out what to do with a purulent toe until Monday, the CMO needs to have a conversation with the general/orthopedic/vascular surgeons receiving a $5k/week call stipend about what they're being paid to do and maybe they're the ones to be lectured about patient abandonment.
Secondly, the designation of "your" patient needs to be defined. If I've been managing this ulcer for weeks, yeah you're right I'll take responsibility for this one. If I amputated a homeless guy's toe 14 months ago and never saw him since, I contend it does not establish him as "my" patient.
All of this is going to be institution and community dependent, but there's a lot of power in being able to say the word "no." We have a right to delineate our boundaries.
What defines “not responding”?Strenuously disagree. Like 75% of DPMs (my estimate), I'm just a peon working in a lowly private practice office with no financial arrangement with the hospital. Just because my patient decides to show up to the hospital at 6pm on a Friday, this does not obligate me to rearrange my evening and weekend plans simply to facilitate patient throughput. If they are too stupid to figure out what to do with a purulent toe until Monday, the CMO needs to have a conversation with the general/orthopedic/vascular surgeons receiving a $5k/week call stipend about what they're being paid to do and maybe they're the ones to be lectured about patient abandonment.
Secondly, the designation of "your" patient needs to be defined. If I've been managing this ulcer for weeks, yeah you're right I'll take responsibility for this one. If I amputated a homeless guy's toe 14 months ago and never saw him since, I contend it does not establish him as "my" patient.
All of this is going to be institution and community dependent, but there's a lot of power in being able to say the word "no." We have a right to delineate our boundaries.
To be clear, it's not about the money. The purpose of the call stipend isn't to have an ancillary revenue stream a certain website alludes to. The purpose of the call stipend is so the on-call provider can be made whole. If you're on call, and you're expected to make changes in your private life in order to be available to answer that call, that's a loss to the doctor, and that loss should be compensated. That's just fairness.The person in the story was an MD. So abandonment could absolutely could apply to them in this scenario. First question to ask yourself isn't will I be paid for taking this call, but will I be sued and possibly lose if I don't. I don't know how it works for DPMs in terms of patient ownership but definitely could be the case for a urologist.
I don't know, I didn't use that phraseology in the post you quoted, but I suppose it's outlined by different hospitals' bylawsWhat defines “not responding”?
Nerve Reconstructive Ortho plastic foot and ankle surgeons dodo DPMs even use stethescopes?
if not this meme breaks my immersion![]()
do DPMs even use stethescopes?
if not this meme breaks my immersion![]()
How else do you expect us to find DP and PT pulses?do DPMs even use stethescopes?
if not this meme breaks my immersion![]()
Podiatrists have been ahead of the curve for not using stethoscopes. Us and ophtho really, because they're vision doctors not listening doctors. Gen surg uses them as props to look doctory in photos. Neuro uses them when they lose their reflex hammers. Even ER docs used them primarily to get their exam bullet points documented before they changed e/m coding 3 years ago.