What do stress tests, cardiolytes, echocardiograms and endoscopy have to do with serving a small, (presumably) elderly rural community with a 49-bed hospital? Especially by a general internist? "Lucrative" is indeed an apt description for this particular skill set, for surely it isn't very likely to be "healthy", "caring" or "evidence-based".General Internist
- Step into a lucrative mature practice, no buy-in
- Practitioner has been here 21 years
- Practice located in new clinic building attached to Hospital
- Practice managed by Hospital
- Need to be able to do stress tests and cardiolytes
- Reading echocardiograms a plus
- Endoscopy also encouraged
Nice, quiet community in Northeastern [large Western state].
But what fodder for haiku. Why is healthcare in the US expensive and inefficient?
Endoscopy and echoStill, I am no match for the ad's own brilliance:
Stress test and cardiolyte
Lucrative internist.
Stress tests and cardiolytesFeel free to post your own haiku in the comments...
Echocardiograms a plus
Endoscopy also encouraged.
by: John Newman
6 comments:
Thank you for this blogpost. It so hits the nail on the head of sooooo much that is the crux of what is sooooo wrong with healthcare and so wasteful, as well as too aggressively exposing patients to procedures that are not without risks! So many really wonderful IM Docs,for instance, that I have known have turned into near assembly line procedureists.
_RN of 30 years, recently retired.
Lucrative geri clinic
satisfaction guaranteed
but pay not so good
This haiku is a playful re-purposing of the titular phrase from the iconic balladeer of Summer 2012, the inimitable Carly Rae Jepsen:
I don’t want to die
This medication won’t help me
Maybe?
not just internal
heart, electrolytes, stomach
more important - cash
Can’t “bend the curve”, son:
Scopes can be counted and paid--
Hopes have no E/M.
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