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Patient satisfaction is important.  But the most commonly used metric in the US, the Press Ganey survey, may not be a good measure of individual emergency physician and clinician performance.  Giving emergency clinicians feedback on their Press Ganey scores, ostensibly so they could take steps to improve, did not lead to appreciable score improvements.

The ED workflow has unavoidable peak hours in volume.  The key is improving off-peak hours by pushing ourselves to see new patients while managing existing ones.

Residents tend to "cherry-pick" and sign up for patients with simpler sounding chief complaints more quickly than other complaints.