Increasingly, I realize that I’m being audio-recorded when I’m interacting with my patients at their hospital bedside. I say realize, because the majority of the time I’m never asked. Sometimes it’s the patient recording. Other times it’s a family member in the room. In both scenarios I get upset. I feel violated. When it’s the […]
Plight of Rural Medicine – Dating Woes!
An article in the Washington Post caught my eye today. It features a young family practice physician who is frustrated with providing medical care in rural Virginia. She grew up in the Washington DC suburbs and went to top-class schools where she excelled. Now she lives in Charlottesville, VA and commutes 46 miles round trip […]
ICD Codes: You Will be the Death of Me.
This is a continuation of my earlier rant on Medicare/Medicaid. …Earlier this week, it was another patient. Also with osteomyelitis (a bone infection). Doing well however. I still had this patient on antibiotics and wanted to get bloodwork to monitor for potential adverse effects of the antibiotics. Knowing that bloodwork requires an ICD-code for billing […]