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Dr. Frances Quee outlines priorities for preventing work stoppage
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Dr. Frances Quee, President of Doctors Council SEIU, responds to Council Member Narcisse's request for priorities to prevent a work stoppage.
- Dr. Quee recommends rolling back the 40 to 20-minute appointment change
- She emphasizes the need for better patient care and building connections with patients
- Dr. Quee calls for Health + Hospitals to offer decent wages to attract and retain doctors
- Council Member Narcisse summarizes the three main points: reverting to 40-minute appointments, allowing nurse practitioners to see patients instead of reviewing charts, and offering decent wages
Dr. Frances Quee
2:31:26
forward, we need, health and hospitals to roll back their 40 minutes, 20 minutes.
2:31:32
We have nurse practitioners who also can see patients.
2:31:35
They can then panel them.
2:31:36
I don't need a nurse practitioner to review my, my inbox.
2:31:40
That is waste of their time and waste of health and hospital dollars.
2:31:44
So, that is the first thing.
2:31:46
And secondly, once that is done, we can sit together and bring all these, 20,000 people in.
2:31:53
In the beginning we heard it was 50,000, so I don't even know how many people are still waiting to be seen.
2:31:58
We don't want anybody, primary care, first of all, when you come in for the first time, people need to be comfortable to share their stories with you.
2:32:06
So if you're rushing, I'm busy looking at who's waiting to be seen next, you don't build that connection.
2:32:11
So people just come in and they don't feel that they have been served.
2:32:15
That is wrong.
2:32:16
So once they come in, we need them to feel comfortable, tell you all their stories, whatever is in whatever they're here for, and you can take care of that.
2:32:24
I know doctor Katz said you can do one, you know, what are you here for?
2:32:28
Is it your knee or your ankle?
2:32:29
And I'll take care of something in the next, 2 weeks.
2:32:33
But most of us here don't have 2 weeks appointments.
2:32:36
We don't.
2:32:37
So you're gonna be liable for anything that happens to this patient if you do not take care of the patient in totality.
2:32:43
And the other thing you said about what is the other priority, I want, health and hospital.
2:32:49
We want health and hospital to to offer a decent wage.
2:32:53
We are not asking for anything Colombia is paying.
2:32:56
We came into a mission driven system and we understand that.
2:32:59
But at least something that people can be able to pay their bills and something that will be able to to attract more more patients, more doctors.
2:33:07
We have residents.
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We train residents all the time.
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They're coming out of the system.
2:33:11
And they just say goodbye and they leave.
2:33:13
And I understand them because they have so much student loan debt that they need to pay.
2:33:18
They're not coming here.
2:33:19
I mean, we are here.
2:33:20
We're not going anywhere.
2:33:21
Doctor Katz knows that.
2:33:23
There are some of us who are lifers.
2:33:24
We're not going anywhere.
2:33:25
There are people in the system 40, 50 years.
2:33:27
We're still here.
2:33:28
We're not going anywhere.
2:33:29
But we cannot attract the new people.
2:33:31
So we need something that is comparable, something that people will be able to pay their bills.
Mercedes Narcisse
2:33:37
So that's So correct.
2:33:39
The 20 to 40 minutes, you don't want nurse practitioner to do over reviewing your charts, right?
Dr. Frances Quee
2:33:45
They can
Mitch Katz
2:33:45
see your work.
Mercedes Narcisse
2:33:46
You don't want the patients.
2:33:47
The patients.
2:33:48
And 3, descent wages.
Lynn C. Schulman
2:33:50
Yes.
Mercedes Narcisse
2:33:51
Okay.