So I've continued to hold fast to my refusal to supervise. However, something's come up and I'm wondering how others here would handle it.
I've now learned that there are two separate "contracts" for mid-level supervision here, and in my mind they're totally backwards. Pay for supervising the outpatient midlevels is almost 6x more than it is for supervising midlevels who work primarily in the hospital (inpatient medicine and ED).
So the thing is, we have a PA that sees patients 2 days per week in our clinic, otherwise it's me, another new guy, and a part-timer. The other new guy signed his PA supervision contract and has been given an ED only PA; which means $400/month basically in compensation, while bearing full liability for anything that happens while that PA is practicing alone in the ED for 24hrs at a time.
My partner has tried to ask if he can supervise the PA that works in our clinic instead, but she's been assigned to another doc in a clinic about 40 mins north of here, that clinic is in the hospital where our PA's cover the ED. I'm guessing that doc is making $20k a year for it. That doctor won't agree to trading for the PA he can be present for, and I'm guessing it's because of money.
The rub is that this PA is very green, and I'm being asked (by her) to "curbside" on probably 60% of the patients she sees here.
I'm tempted to start refusing to help, and telling her she needs to call her "supervising doc" with her questions instead. I don't want to make any waves, but it seems that if this other doc is assigned to be the supervisor, and getting paid 6x more than what they offered us to supervise, then he should have to work for it.
What does the group say?