There’s a thread about how emergency physicians are paid. It varies from group to group:
Physicians can be salaried and receive benefits from their group or hospital
Physicians can be 100% productivity based meaning that they will only get paid by the amount of patients they treat but they receive no other benefits from the group or hospital
In between these two groups, there is a wide variety of compensation Packages that are complicated to discuss in this comment.
Nonetheless, the overwriting factor for all emergency physicians is that we triage patients, not only after triage, but internally as well, including those patients at reside within the treatment rooms and those outside in the waiting room.
The question is, can we see less patients and spend more time with them and the answer is yes but to the detriment of the entire department and possibly not seeing a patient who is sick and who hasn’t been seen yet. Do you have to be able to tell who you can spend five minutes with and who needs 30 minutes.
Through put his king, but quality is queen, so there’s always a trade-off between seeing patients fast enough and to see enough patients through your shift, but to also how they were with all to determine which patients will require more time and more due diligence.
Every shift is a pull and push between these two dichotomies and it’s never easy and there are multiple decisions that have to be made.
Physicians can be salaried and receive benefits from their group or hospital
Physicians can be 100% productivity based meaning that they will only get paid by the amount of patients they treat but they receive no other benefits from the group or hospital
In between these two groups, there is a wide variety of compensation Packages that are complicated to discuss in this comment.
Nonetheless, the overwriting factor for all emergency physicians is that we triage patients, not only after triage, but internally as well, including those patients at reside within the treatment rooms and those outside in the waiting room.
The question is, can we see less patients and spend more time with them and the answer is yes but to the detriment of the entire department and possibly not seeing a patient who is sick and who hasn’t been seen yet. Do you have to be able to tell who you can spend five minutes with and who needs 30 minutes.
Through put his king, but quality is queen, so there’s always a trade-off between seeing patients fast enough and to see enough patients through your shift, but to also how they were with all to determine which patients will require more time and more due diligence.
Every shift is a pull and push between these two dichotomies and it’s never easy and there are multiple decisions that have to be made.