Keeping Your GP Consultations
The War Strategies
This site is devoted to letting doctors control their working environment.
This site (www.cons10.com) is about work less / earn more - and support us by looking after yourself first.
Our sites showcase the three three parts to our strategy:
1. Cons10 Web Tutorial (this site): save your time and cost them money, creating an urgency for a solution.
2. The Positive Action Guide Page : an introduction to www.Guvnot.com.
For us to succeed , we need to create an environment where the government needs a reason to negotiate.
3. Getting Support for your own Positive Actions through a Group : Group Actions at www.Bloodweaver.com
Part of the problem is the multiplicity of interests that need to be championed. Most of our top bodies default to representing very few of them, because they cannot get ubiquitous approval for their actions- helping A makes B upset and helping B makes A upset. A classical no win situation. The Bloodweaver site gets around this by linking small groups on specific issues. The big organisation is a relic of the pre-internet era.
The Discussion:
Currently, in the medical industry there is:
A parsimonious government.
A hostile regulatory body (AHPRA).
A lack of business training.
A lack of useful and effective political representation.
Many different interests to represent and champion.
Yet we still all still have interests in parallel. The Medicare system effectively dictates what work you can do, what equipment you can use and what you get paid for it. We need to change this system which has defaulted to dictating that we only do what is cheap for the government. So there are many different paths to many new futures if you can- decide what you want, decide how to get this and get help for the journey.
My own personal view is that if you really want to earn money, work for people who can afford to pay you. The reality is that doctors and medical care are relatively expensive and people do not have the money available to pay for their own care. Medical Care is always going to be subsidised by government or employers. It is beyond the practically available resources for many individuals, especially when a crisis occurs.
I particularly remember one patient who had the tip of her finger accidentally cut by a knife. The patient was seen at a hospital in the USA, generating a 2 @ A4 page report including a CT scan and a one and a half thousand dollar bill for the care (including the stitches). The same event in Australia would probably earn the doctor $100, take 15 minutes (tops) and involve no more than few lines of notes.
There is nothing wrong with the USA model of care. But for every patient who is a beneficiary of this Rolls Royce model of care, many people get no care at all.
The Australian model has its own problems as the funders cut payments for care and the doctors/ caregivers cut services in an attempt to survive financially. Both chasing their tails down to as close to zero as they can go.
But it is more equitable for everyone.
1. Keeping Your GP Consultations Under 10 Minutes
Do the 10 minute consultation training module. It is made to display online much like a web page. It should project well onto a screen. It is meant to be processed slowly and thought about.
Cons10 Web Tutorial: save your time and cost them money, creating an urgency for a solution.
2. Positive Action www.Guvnot.com
Look at the Public Actions Page: a guide to the simple things you can do to promote a public campaign for change.
Send patients who are not profitable to be cared for to hospital and keep sending them there.
Refer : Patients who come with too many issues and who demand too much time.
Refer: Patients needing expensive care e.g. dressings.
Refer : Complex patients whose conditions are terminal or severely chronic and complex. (It’s the sort of thing you get in trouble for. If something goes wrong, everyone will say you should not have been looking after the issues/problems/patients. It is beyond your pay grade. This sort of thing is easy for others to say and hard to defend).
The Positive Action Guide Page an introduction to www.Guvnot.com
3. Create an Issue and Get Support www.Bloodweaver.com
This linked site covers aspects of working with other people to solve the problems caused by authority in out lives.
Government is for the people and by the people. Too many elected members forget who they represent.
Whatever your problem, you can find other like minded people and work together to create change - legally.
If your problem is with the Tax Office / IRD , find other people similarly afflicted.
If your problem is just that the traffic fines are unrealistically expensive , find other people similarly afflicted. All too often the government uses fines to raise revenue, forgetting about the damage that unrestrained revenue generation causes to people and the social milieu. There are many people in our society who cannot afford to pay hundreds of dollars of fines.
Group Actions at www.Bloodweaver.com. The big organisation is a relic of the pre-internet era.
There are three parts to the strategy:
2. Positive Action .... www.Guvnot.com
3. Getting Support for your own Positive Actions through a Group : Group Actions at www.Bloodweaver.com