Recently, we asked, via the 42 email list, for folks to name the things they worried most about in their practice. We suggest you try covering the page, and playing your own home/office version of "Family Feud" by trying to guess as many as you can of the most popular answers listed below.
Suicide of a patient/Missing a suicidal patient. Lawsuit from this/ Any kind of lawsuit
Insufficient income to retire, or need to see more patients to get by, or getting sick and not being able to practice
Personal mortality
Declining reimbursement from mco’s/Need to remain in mco’s to sustain practice
Encroaching regulations from government that make practice less and less enjoyable.
Identity Theft from Insurers who have all kinds of personal information on patients and practitioners
Child custody evaluations/making a mistake in choosing the better parent
Rampant No-Shows
Dual Relationships as interpreted by a Licensing Board
Failure of profession/APA to represent the needs of practitioners sufficiently
Writing adequate process notes/Fear of notes being scrutinized
Thanks to our contributors: K. Shore, S. Ceren, F. Froman, B. Fontana, J. Benedict, T. Rubin, B. Karman, K. Blair, C. Parker, D. Kay
