The trending post right now on Acountrydoctorwrites.Blog is about the unending stream of calls for medical advice we get in my office and, I’m sure, others like it. We get calls asking how to treat a cold. My suggestion is that we hire some grandmothers. Our own staff, even though most are wise grandmothers and mothers, are not allowed to give “medical” advice in the litigious climate we live in. And the medical providers don’t have a lot (read any) of wiggle room in their schedules to handle non-urgent calls in a timely fashion. I also recently posted about what I recommend in treating the symptoms of a cold (note that there is no treatment for the cold itself; it’s going to run its course). I don’t know if that will make a difference in our call volume, but it’s worth a try. All medical bloggers touch on or delve deeply into the pandemic of physician burnout. My 1/22 post, The Future of Doctoring is Already Here: Do More, Give Less or Burn Out, is the most read in my blog’s almost 15 year history - well over 13,000 views and counting. On 2/14, The New York Times picked up on broadly the same unsolvable equation (not to say they were inspired by my piece) in their article According to Medical Guidelines, Your Doctor Needs a 27-Hour Workday.
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The trending post right now on Acountrydoctorwrites.Blog is about the unending stream of calls for medical advice we get in my office and, I’m sure, others like it. We get calls asking how to treat a cold. My suggestion is that we hire some grandmothers. Our own staff, even though most are wise grandmothers and mothers, are not allowed to give “medical” advice in the litigious climate we live in. And the medical providers don’t have a lot (read any) of wiggle room in their schedules to handle non-urgent calls in a timely fashion. I also recently posted about what I recommend in treating the symptoms of a cold (note that there is no treatment for the cold itself; it’s going to run its course). I don’t know if that will make a difference in our call volume, but it’s worth a try. All medical bloggers touch on or delve deeply into the pandemic of physician burnout. My 1/22 post, The Future of Doctoring is Already Here: Do More, Give Less or Burn Out, is the most read in my blog’s almost 15 year history - well over 13,000 views and counting. On 2/14, The New York Times picked up on broadly the same unsolvable equation (not to say they were inspired by my piece) in their article According to Medical Guidelines, Your Doctor Needs a 27-Hour Workday.