Doc's Progress Notes
Week of November 6, 2000
Last Updated: 11/12/2000 at 10:25 PM PDT
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Obviously I am too busy anymore to do a daily update. This week I don't think I was home before 10 PM any night. I don't recall what I did every night but one of them I was on call. One night I had a meeting sponsored by our malpractice insurance company and mandatory for our continuing education requirements. Another night was an interview with a physician who is applying for a position in our group, actually that might have been the night I was on call too. One night I also had to go back to the office to finish up after going home.
This weekend we spent in Seattle. Our yearly group retreat was there this weekend so we drove up Friday night. It began Saturday morning with four hours of free time Saturday afternoon, then a dinner and social time Saturday night. We concluded with meetings this morning until noon. After that, Delanae, the kids, and I went down to Planet Hollywood to eat lunch then we drove around the campus of the University of Washington. Stephen says he wants to go to college there and we had never seen it before. It is a pretty campus, Delanae was impressed by the ivy on the buildings there. Getting out of it was a little tough with gridlock on the surrounding streets and I5 south in that part of Seattle. We did make it home in time to pick up the dogs at the place where they were being boarded so they did not have to spend another day there.
The retreat itself turned out to be a little more interesting than planned. The theme this year was ways to improve communication between members of the group. It turned into several hours of discussion about several topics, primarily the roles of the primary care physician and specialist physician and how they should function together as a team. There are some primary care physicians feeling disrespected by some specialists who are members of the same group. These feelings were bared for the whole group and caused some uncomfortable moments but hopefully will lead to renewed attempts to respect all members of the group. Several of the older members of the group remarked that this was the most open discussion they had seen at a retreat. Now we have to spend the next year working on these problems so we don't lose the momentum.
Don't look for daily updates anytime soon. I am not sure if I will have daily updates ever again. Right now it doesn't look like it. I will try to write something when I have some free time but that is getting less and less.
