Rethinking Institutional Metrics of Success

Financial and productivity metrics are critically important in any business. But for physicians, medicine is a profession, not a business.

from WellnessRounds

Recently, I was talking to a superstar surgeon who had travelled to Africa for two weeks to operate and teach. Lives were saved, a gift was given, but when he returned he was told that the two weeks he had spent in Africa resulted in not meeting his RVU target for the month… which he now had to “make up.”

Are you kidding? I can’t think of any physician that would think this is okay.

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