On my hands and knees begging the 74 year old neurologists
Oh man, it really is that bad though. I’m on the provider side and got to witness my aged coworkers switch from a legacy EMR system from GE built to work on window 2000 to Epic.
Going to provider training with 75 year old pediatricians trying to figure out how to enter diagnosis codes was like witnessing a senior citizen trying to enact spells from some chaos runes, it just melted their brains. Unfortunately a lot of them ended up retiring all at once.
I still have to listen to my coworker down the hall do all his notes by basically shouting into the dragonspeak wand with his door open.
You lazy commie millennials wouldn’t understand the work ethic of a hot, red-blooded boomer trying to avoid spending any time with his abused and emotionally destroyed Karen of a wife whose only joy is now tormenting minimum wage workers and his kids who don’t talk to him anymore because he’s a brave patriot who speaks his mind and doesn’t give into the woke left.
Not too far off… I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation and my specialty is kinda famous for being really bad at having families.
But I’d say the underlying cause is more like undiagnosed personality disorder/autism than being patriotic. Most of the older guys are extremely divorced dads who are obsessed with squash if they are brown or golf if they’re white. We also have divorced dad “pretends to be cowboy or in motorcycle gang” if they’re a younger boomer.
Part of it is that I work at a teaching hospital, so a lot of them are mainly here just to pass down knowledge to residents. The other part is that I live in one of the most conservative (poor) states in America and young doctors don’t want to move here, especially if they’ve specialized.
There’s definitely a lot less of them than there were 5 years ago. First wave got taken out(figuratively) when CMS went from Icd-9 codes to icd-10 codes, and everyone had to re-memorize every diagnosis code they use again.
The second wave got taken out(literally) by COVID, we were one of the states where people sued because the hospital made clinicians get vaccinated. So I got to see a bunch of sweet older providers die/be put on oxygen.
And lastly the change over to Epic was just a cherry on top to get the vast majority of the older providers to quit. Now we have huge wait times for most specialty medicine clinics.
The first company to bring in elderly health care providers to consult for ui/ux will instantly raise a 100,000+ strong army that will have ISIS style beheadings of any management that refuses to use it.
Oh man, it really is that bad though. I’m on the provider side and got to witness my aged coworkers switch from a legacy EMR system from GE built to work on window 2000 to Epic.
Going to provider training with 75 year old pediatricians trying to figure out how to enter diagnosis codes was like witnessing a senior citizen trying to enact spells from some chaos runes, it just melted their brains. Unfortunately a lot of them ended up retiring all at once.
I still have to listen to my coworker down the hall do all his notes by basically shouting into the dragonspeak wand with his door open.
Why are there 75 year old people working? That’s the main issue imo, those should have retired 10 years ago
You lazy commie millennials wouldn’t understand the work ethic of a hot, red-blooded boomer trying to avoid spending any time with his abused and emotionally destroyed Karen of a wife whose only joy is now tormenting minimum wage workers and his kids who don’t talk to him anymore because he’s a brave patriot who speaks his mind and doesn’t give into the woke left.
Not too far off… I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation and my specialty is kinda famous for being really bad at having families.
But I’d say the underlying cause is more like undiagnosed personality disorder/autism than being patriotic. Most of the older guys are extremely divorced dads who are obsessed with squash if they are brown or golf if they’re white. We also have divorced dad “pretends to be cowboy or in motorcycle gang” if they’re a younger boomer.
My father worked 100+ hour work weeks to avoid his abusive wife, and they’re both confused why they have a poor relationship with all their kids.
Part of it is that I work at a teaching hospital, so a lot of them are mainly here just to pass down knowledge to residents. The other part is that I live in one of the most conservative (poor) states in America and young doctors don’t want to move here, especially if they’ve specialized.
There’s definitely a lot less of them than there were 5 years ago. First wave got taken out(figuratively) when CMS went from Icd-9 codes to icd-10 codes, and everyone had to re-memorize every diagnosis code they use again.
The second wave got taken out(literally) by COVID, we were one of the states where people sued because the hospital made clinicians get vaccinated. So I got to see a bunch of sweet older providers die/be put on oxygen.
And lastly the change over to Epic was just a cherry on top to get the vast majority of the older providers to quit. Now we have huge wait times for most specialty medicine clinics.
The first company to bring in elderly health care providers to consult for ui/ux will instantly raise a 100,000+ strong army that will have ISIS style beheadings of any management that refuses to use it.
Epic will begin their hyperspace jihad upon your healthcare network. The medical data must flow.