are you a member of professional society? how many?
for about the first ten years of career, I more reflexively than anything joined and paid several hundo a year each.
I'm not sure what I got for it. I got a journal, which I have online access to through work anyways.
supposedly I got some lobbying, but all I saw was declining reimbursements. they claim it would have been worse without them.
I got phone numbers I could call for guidance with specialty related issues, but the people I talked to didn't offer any real substantive help.
I hadn't been to national meeting for several years.
so I quit.
now I get emails every year telling me how much they are doing for me and why I should rejoin.
once a year I get a lovely email from a np telling me how important it is to be a member.
what do you get for your several hundred bucks? I know we can't all be free loaders, but the issues that I want addressed that might bring me back:
1)end MOC
2)less rigorous registry and documentation crap
3)movements to constrain the influx of nonclinical activities
4)reimbursement and coding support
for about the first ten years of career, I more reflexively than anything joined and paid several hundo a year each.
I'm not sure what I got for it. I got a journal, which I have online access to through work anyways.
supposedly I got some lobbying, but all I saw was declining reimbursements. they claim it would have been worse without them.
I got phone numbers I could call for guidance with specialty related issues, but the people I talked to didn't offer any real substantive help.
I hadn't been to national meeting for several years.
so I quit.
now I get emails every year telling me how much they are doing for me and why I should rejoin.
once a year I get a lovely email from a np telling me how important it is to be a member.
what do you get for your several hundred bucks? I know we can't all be free loaders, but the issues that I want addressed that might bring me back:
1)end MOC
2)less rigorous registry and documentation crap
3)movements to constrain the influx of nonclinical activities
4)reimbursement and coding support
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