Trouble in Paradise: If someone was looking to disrupt my enjoyment of my new job, they succeeded.

[Aristus]

33. It's not their e-mail boxes; it's their electronic in-boxes.

You know, where they can receive files of patient records, outside lab results, medication refill requests, requests for prior authorizations, imaging results, morgue reports, , etc, etc. These are actually easily accessible by any provider with the EMR system that we have. We do have to have this kind of access for when a provider needs coverage while on vacation, and so on.

The objection here is that the providers in question have full in-boxes, and rather than getting a nudge that it's time to address this, they just gang up on other providers (whom they have arbitrarily decided are "not doing anything at the moment" ) to do the work for them, under the rubric of generating more billable encounters.

You're right, though; it does seem unethical.