In healthcare consulting, I'm finding it difficult to feel any sense of meaning in my work. Analysis after analysis. Slide deck after slide deck. Contemplating a move back into leading operations. Anyone else relate?

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I was a provider for many years. Thats just a slave to insurance companies. Choose your master.

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It’s not very meaningful work (ideas are often not used). Overly competitive leading to a nasty culture where everyone is trying to one up. I’m leaving to go back to industry.

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It can help to look at the bigger picture and focus on the outcomes of your work. Eg you might help a hospital save X millions of dollars, reduced X amount of high risk situations and saved patients from potential harm, made processes easier for people to access their insurance plans. The work on its own can always be boring to do, but the end result you create positively impacts hundreds of not thousands of people

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I get where you're coming from, and it does help to some extent. I think the missing piece for me is the collaboration and leadership aspect. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until I left industry and now do mostly independent work.

It could also be that you're not in the right role or being challenged. I do a mix of analysis and implementation. I manage a small team, work directly with clients to make changes, and love the people I work with. Sometimes it feels like grunt work, analysis, and PowerPoints. Sometimes, it feels like I got one more patient access to care, made someone's job easier, and made a difference.

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Sounds like you're in the wrong role! Doesn't hurt to explore other roles, firms, and going back to industry. There's no point in being somewhere you aren't happy or growing.

I feel this way all the time when I’m aligned to RC engagements. My background is clinical and public health. While I get that charge capture, cash acceleration etc feeds into “no money, no mission”, in no way do I feel this directly improves the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. I feel like consulting firms like retooling clinical resources because we know the jargon but in reality this is back office grunt work nobody wants to do.

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