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Friday, March 27, 2015
Define "valuable"
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Invitation a reader recently received for a market research survey:
Thank you, Dr. M!
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Thank you, Dr. M!
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Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
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12 comments:
Now that's valuable. Sounds like my grandmother's offer to me when I was a kid. Pick the walkway stones out of the grass and put them back in the walkway and I'll give you a nickel.
A survey company that has adopted the Medicare pricing system for a doctor's time.
Be very careful...this could throw you into a different tax bracket.
Many years ago I worked for a company that provided food for people with advanced dementia. To get reimbursed we had to get doctors to sign a form confirming the diagnosis of dementia. Many doctors were quite bad about signing and returning those forms to us despite colorful "Sign here!" stickers and prepaid FedEx envelopes.
So my boss hit on the brilliant idea of including a $5 bill with each letter we sent out to encourage the doctors to sign and return the forms.
This did not go over well.
It took about a week of outraged calls for us to stop our pathetic attempts at bribery.
Now that docs actually pay for the privilege of treating Medicare and Medicaid patients, $1 per 20 minutes profit looks pretty good.
They aren't even promising a dollar. It's offering a chance at earning a dollar.
Hey, that's probably twice what they paid that kid to model.
Suppose there's a charge for the cost of the internetting? (They don't charge for the use of the No. 2 pencil and the fill-in-the-dot sheet?)
Looks like a message the HR department at my hospital would send around to get us to fill out their surveys. But instead of $1 they would offer a penalty of forming a committee if everybody in the pharmacy didn't participate.
"Also, we're not really asking. And when we say 'see you soon,' we mean you AND your family. So it's really in your best interest to fill out the survey."
Wow, you mean I was workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar, when instead I could have spent 20 minutes filling out a survey? Now I'm REALLY gonna raise a fuss and a holler!
Somebody took at least one semester of Psychology.
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