FRUSTRATED OB
[This is a guest post]
“I’ll make this quick because I know we all have other things we need to do BUT I have got to get this off of my chest! I am really angry and frustrated that I have almost no professional satisfaction despite putting in so much time and effort to get to this point!
We work so hard to become established docs in our communities. I didn’t marry and have children until I was 38. Now, I absolutely dread going to work. Don’t get me wrong. I love practicing medicine. I still love women’s health. It’s HOW I do it that I don’t love at all. I’m in a group practice. I’m all about working smarter and not harder but I’m in the minority.
Briefly, the partners do not agree on how to run this practice. I had thought a group practice would be better for me as far as my personal life, but I’m learning a hard lesson that it doesn’t seem to be so. And I won’t even go into the decline in reimbursement and increase in liability.
I don’t want to leave OB/GYN completely, but I’m having a hard time reconciling it with my family life (and I know I’m not the only one). Short of starting my own solo practice (which is a whole different issue), I don’t feel that I have many other options. Whew! Thanks for letting me share.”
