Tim BoyleDirector of Sales & Business Development at REVA Global Medical, REVA Global Medical Virtual Professionals · Director of Sales & Business Development at REVA Global Medical | Driving Practice Growth & Global Profitability with Care & Precision

Doctors Should Focus on Patients — Not Paperwork

Name: Doctors Should Focus on Patients — Not Paperwork
Uploaded: 2025-10-17T11:08:04+00:00
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Channel: Tim Boyle
Description: In this excerpt from a YouTube discussion, two speakers examine the blurry line between administrative (clerical) duties and clinical responsibilities in…

17 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from a YouTube discussion, two speakers examine the blurry line between administrative (clerical) duties and clinical responsibilities in physicians' offices, especially when virtual assistants are involved. Speaker A challenges the common myth that administrative work is purely non‑clinical and can be done by anyone, warning that virtual assistants may unintentionally perform clinical‑related tasks. Speaker B reinforces the importance of keeping physicians’ time dedicated to direct patient care, outlining Reva Global Medical’s classification of tasks: clinical work (assessing patients, making care decisions, administering treatments, coordinating care plans) consumes roughly 40‑50% of a doctor’s day and is the core of why physicians entered the profession. The conversation underscores that preserving this clinical focus is essential for patient‑centered practice and cautions against allowing administrative staff to encroach on clinical duties.

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We often talk about this distinction between administrative and clinical, and then we fool ourselves into thinking, oh, this is just administrative, pretty much anybody can do it. Let's help dispel that myth and mistake there. So what does administrative mean in terms of virtual assistants, and how far do these kind of administrative assistants end up doing some or other clinical things? Ish-related tasks as well.
Yeah, I think it's very important because when you look at different doctors' offices or physicians' offices, you start looking at what is, what are the tasks that really put, let's say, a client in, in, in patient care ahead of everything, right? So it's, it's really sitting face to face, and you break it up between what we do at Reva Global Medical. We break it up between clinical and clerical. Right? So you look at clinical tasks are assessing patients, making care decisions, administering treatments, coordinating care plans, and that typically takes about 50, probably 40-50% of, you know, physicians' day's time up. So that's the, the part of their day that needs to be really, really focused on bringing people into their practice, really showing them that they care. Because when you see physicians that signed up to be a physician or a doctor, that's typically why they got into it, is for the patient care side.