“...and all the children are above-average.”
—Garrison Keilor
Ain’t hospital gossip fun? The scuttlebutt of the day some time ago involved one of our surgeons cornering the head of our endoscopy committee in the doctor’s lounge to vent about the new QI standards in our tiny endoscopy suite. He’d just gotten the memo. We gastros had such hubris! Could we possibly be implying that (specifically) his endoscopic technique was lacking?
Far from being yet another crazy standard imposed by those JCAHO-nistas and JCAHO-nostras (as my bud Patricia Stoeckley, who is affiliated with an unnamed large healthcare system in Ohio, might say from an undisclosed safe house), it’s time endoscopy set its own standards.
Oh, except as applies to me, of course. I don’t need to hassle with these QI standards. I know I can scope rings around my surgical colleagues, and more than a few of my gastro ones. At least that’s what those voices in my head tell me.