Good Stepping Stone Job - Medical Assistant LifeStyle Medical Center Employee Review

Great patients, flexible hours, coworkers are like family, benefits and matched 401k, fun environment, passionate about lifestyle medicine, ability to be creative and have a voice as an RD

Rapid growth creates regular change which can be challenging at times and exciting at other times. Work on some nights.

Supporting patients while they lose weight is very rewarding

The job is advertised as paying $30-$40/hr (the normal rate for most RD jobs in the area), but the pay is based on billable time. No matter what you're told about how "busy" they are, you'll never have a full schedule, so you'll end up with lots of unpaid time between appointments - dragging your actual pay down to an unreasonably low rate. Top that off with not having a cancellation/rescheduling/no-show policy. Each day appx 30% of your booked appointments don't happen (you're there, but not being paid). Try bringing any of this up and you'll be told you're being "negative" while the character assassination campaign against you begins. Turnover is very high - even 3 different medical directors in the past few years. Patients constantly complain that the office doesn't answer the phone! Weekly meetings are required, but you aren't paid for that time either. You only fit in if you're willing to pretend this is all normal and acceptable. The actual patient care is infused with the magical thinking of clinicians who think they know more about nutrition than they actually do. Patients suffer with wading through conflicting advice and having meds pushed on them the minute they walk through the door.