Showing posts with label reducing waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reducing waste. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2009

Wasted

From: Doe, John SktnHR
Sent: February 3, 2009 6:37 PM
To:   Kishore Visvanathan
Subject: Physician Input for Ambulatory Care

I dread these invitations. This week, I received 4 requests to attend meetings. It’s not that the meetings are terrible; I’d like to go to all of them. The problem is the effort it takes to get to the meetings.

All of the invitations were for meetings within the next 3 weeks. What were these people thinking?  Don’t they know I’m a busy clinician? My schedule is solidly booked at least 6 weeks in advance.  If these people want input from physicians, they need to plan ahead!

Look how much effort it takes to rearrange my schedule to attend a meeting on short notice: