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Old 11-03-2022, 10:21 AM   #3466
AFireInside
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
The appointment thing is a side affect of fee for service billing. If you note BC appears to be getting rid of it. But there are pros and cons to it.
No it isn't. There are pros and cons to that set up though from what I'm told. I think depending on the type of patients or case load you have really make that system good or bad, but that applies to our billing as well.

Anecdotes are always difficult to use as examples. Even my job has things from that seem like a waste of time to people on the outside or to me. A couple of the anecdotes posted here don't even add up, unless there's more to the story, which there likely is, and that doesn't mean their complaints aren't valid either.

The story of going to the GP every other week, only to be sent to a specialist who says take it easy and it's better in a week. If a GP has 30 cases like this year and the first thing they do is send to a specialist, good luck getting to a specialist, especially when it resolves with rest. Did the GP suspect it was something else, do they see things like this every week that usually resolve by taking it easy, and this one just took longer, so a specialist was eventually called, etc.

Claims of "it's because money" or "it's because they are dumb" are meaningless, & just serve to get people riled up. I'm sure HCW's have lots of solutions to many of our issues, but the government needs to listen.

For the record I'm no better, I get just as annoyed at many of these situations, like going to a dentist because I have a cavity, getting there and they tell me I have a cavity and schedule me for a week later. It drives me crazy and I just assume it's because of money, but it's more likely done that way for reasons I'm not thinking of.

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