Options??
[This is a guest post]
“I have lived my entire life to be a hand surgeon. Now that I’m here, I feel burned out and apathetic. Rare is the patient I feel I’ve really helped. So many are chronic pain patients and worker’s compensation patients that don’t want to go back to work.
I left my first practice for a number of reasons and just started my second. I’m now on call for 2 hospitals when I’d rather never set foot in one again.
With decreasing reimbursement and increasing costs, I feel I don’t have the time to give my patients the quality they deserve and the time necessary to avoid missing something. I also feel I can’t take time off. My husband and I want to have children, but the clock is ticking and I’m buried in student loans.
I would love a more flexible schedule, but need to maintain my income for now. What options do I have?”
