Health systems strive to reflect physician value in compensation plans. However, we all know that patient care volume rules, as measured by Relative Value Units (RVUs).
A cheeky perspective on the matter is published in Annals of Internal Medicine, full text available here.
Sir William Osler almost certainly would not have met his RVUs. His value was in that of a teacher, educator, investigator and scholar. Patient care was not unimportant and served as the basis of his writings and teachings.
Greatness comes from contributions to healing and to the craft of medicine, not from the generation of RVUs.
