Comments on: Dual Degrees For Everybody!

By: Old MD Girl

Old MD Girl — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:16:05 +0000

Eh, most of them wouldn’t know how to actually CONDUCT a clinical research study since many of them hire project managers to do that for them anyway. You wouldn’t believe the number of doctors who were interviewing me during the application process who asked me what the hardest thing about doing my research was who COMPLETELY did not get it when I said it was getting people who I had no face-to-face contact with or authority over to do things for me.

Wow run on sentence.

Anyway, I am a huge advocate of having med students take basic econ classes in health care policy. In fact my med school is too. We had said class already, in fact. Too bad it fell on COMPLETELY deaf ears. Since there was no exam.

By: gayCMEguy

gayCMEguy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:23:11 +0000

You’re absolutely correct Abbie. Docs don’t do they’re own billing. There’s a whole medical billing sub-business world that sub contract this for smaller offices that aren’t part of a big medical monolith. I don’t know Dr. Wes, but (and here’s my bias showing), but if I were placing bets, I’d say he sounds like a surgeon. (I’ll start ducking the slings and arrows now.)

By: PetersDigest

PetersDigest — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:50:40 +0000

I want to know how many doctors actually deal with the billing of their patients. Really, I am curious. Isn’t this why most doctors have a staff that deals with billing questions and issues? I have never once talked to my doctor when I am questioning a bill. I would much prefer my doctor know about medicine and not billing. Dr. Wes kind of sounds like a prick. But that’s just me.

By: gay CME guy

gay CME guy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:55:26 +0000

Hey Ben:

Great post. I think this would be a good post for The Differential. From the patient side, I care a hell of a lot more about what my doc knows about my medical condition than the appropriate CPT code to assign to it.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:15:24 +0000

Hey love the site, this is great! Glad I’m not the only med student who feels this way. I’ll be down at UChicago interviewing for residency in January!