this job is for you! - Primary Care Physician ChenMed Employee Review

This job is for you...if you enjoy being micromanaged down to the very last detail; do not enjoy autonomy as a physician; hate down time or spending time with your family; like being rushed to see complex patients and not have the appropriate resources to manage them well; enjoy having the operational rules/goals changed every few weeks that make your job more tedious. PCP's have no autonomy, no control over scheduling. Patients have very complex social and medical issues, yet corporate administrators still want physicians to see a greater number of patients per day (the goal is to see roughly 18-22 patients per day). Physicians are expected to be available for their patients continuously. Telephone call is not triaged by an RN so expect to deal with non-urgent medical/non-medical issues continuously when you are on call (on the weekend, don't expect to sleep much). Very few in-house specialty services, corporate discourages referrals and once the patient is seen by a specialist it can be difficult (on some occasions) to obtain records of the visit. You are responsible for all inpatient admissions for your patients and will be chastised if you have a particularly high number of patients in the hospital at any particular time. This is particularly frustrating with psych admissions as patients with complex psych issues cannot get seen by a psychiatrist for months apart. Social worker seems overwhelmed and thus was not very helpful in my particular clinic. There is no administrative time to review labs/records, catch up on emails throughout the day. Expect to have repetitive meetings on a weekly basis and the occasional meeting to discuss how much money you are costing the company with particular referrals for particular patients (this meeting made me want to put a bullet in my head). Accessory staff is overworked, tired and frustrated. Lastly, you have to memorize and recite the company's mission statement - I'll call it that for the sake of simplicity - at the beginning of every meeting...and please, do it with enthusiasm (you will have so much to be grateful for). The company says that they are "PCP lead" which is clear to see based on my above description. In short, this job is for you if you enjoy all of the aforementioned things.