Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

12 patients a day. Notes all night. Back at work the next morning already behind. I loved helping

5 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal testimonial, Kelly Alhooie describes the unsustainable workload she faced as a clinician, seeing roughly twelve patients each day and spending two to three hours each night completing progress notes, SOAP notes, and re‑evaluations. The relentless cycle of patient care followed by extensive paperwork created a backlog, leading to missed documentation, patient frustration, and a profound sense of moral distress because administrative demands prevented her from focusing on patient care. Feeling trapped and unable to help her patients, Kelly reached a breaking point, expressing frustration and a determination to find a better way, ultimately deciding to leave her stable position despite the pain of that choice.

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Okay, so before I actually left my job, I was stuck seeing 12 patients a day. Then I would go home at night and I would have to do 2 to 3 hours of notes, do progress notes, SOAP notes, re-evals. I had to keep in that same cycle over and over again. And then the next day would come and all of a sudden I would have more of that paperwork piling up. My work would be getting onto me because I wasn't doing a progress note because I was focusing on the patients and they were getting upset. And that right there morally felt completely wrong. And I was like, I have to show people my skills that I can help them. And I felt like I could not help the patient whatsoever because the work was telling me to focus on doing the paperwork and I wanted to focus on the clients and they would not allow me to focus on the patients. And so I was so frustrated with that that I just said, screw this. I've got— there's got to be a better way because I know what I can do and what I'm capable of. to get these patients to point A to point B, I can't do it 'cause my hands are tied behind my back 'cause I gotta do all this paperwork. So that was the part that really pushed me over the edge, 'cause I had a lot of pain, to leave my stable job.