Exactly. There are very few (if any at all) in anesthesia or radiology making 250-275k working full time yet it is our average.
I guess that's the problem with the term Midwest. I've been keeping an eye out for postings in a three state area on locumtenens just in case something amazing shows up. However, I'll add that I haven't been looking tooo hard since I'm fairly content where I am right now.
What’s the deal with the 0.5M job?
idk ask comphealth
I haven’t seen any jobs with that high of income guaranteed before either I feel we should have a thread to post these jobs in and discuss them, I think anesthesia has a similar thread where they either praise or bash different jobs could be good for a lot of the new grads and young attendings not yet established
When they don't even name the state, gives you a pretty good idea how undesirable the location is. There are shockingly only a handful of states in the country that don't have a single good city.
I stopped reading at Montana
I’ve heard from someone who was there as a locums it’s staffed poorly with nurses. Like one RN overseeing a whole 15 bed unit with psych techs (think someone with a high school diploma and basic mental health training) making up the difference. Patients or staff getting assaulted was not uncommon.
Yeah it’s the only one. Having lived near there the winters can be cold and long (minimal fall and spring seasons, snowfall variable but can be from Halloween to 1st of April). Nice to hear someone had a good experience other than the winters.
This set up would be nice but can you find out how the attendings get around treatment team meetings (often in mornings so can't be in 2 places at once), being on-call (hard to round on second hospital when you're on call from the first place and they're constantly calling you), and when admin tries to start asking you to do things like covering the resident clinic in the afternoon, cover the PHP/IOP randomly when there's a need, etc etc? Maybe they have strategies around all this
Also 15 vacation days each year
Wouldn't a locums job alleviate most of those issues?
The strategies are very simple:
There's definitely been attendings who did these things and at least at the for-profit hospital I'm training at, they've all been let go. They also carried that reputation with them and were let go at the OTHER for profit hospital they used to do this at. They did say they hit $600k for a couple years and then were let go. Doesn't seem sustainable long-term.
Very true. Our hospital utilized locums doctors who did this but within 6 months, they were replaced by an employed doctor.
Maybe don't work for a for-profit hospital. Their job is to squeeze out more profits and eventually get rid of money losing propositions, i.e., you.
Lol... IM hospitalist here. I have a few FM docs in my hospitalist group who are doing well, and it's a fairly manageable job. We see 16 patients per day plus 1 admit on average and make 330k/yr working 7 days on/off (11 hrs shift). FM/IM docs at my place can make 400k+/yr if they work 17.5 days/month.
inpatient medicine is different. Outpatient primary care, facing 20 minutes followups and an overflowing inbox is the problem. PCP pay should be doubled and cardiology pay slashed IMO.
How are they tolerating their ****ty pay? It’s actually nuts
Many FM docs are jumping into the hospitalist bandwagon right now. I guess they are starting to realize that they are getting a bad deal doing outpatient (seeing 25+ patients per day for a salary of 225k/yr). Right now, one can make 300k/yr 7 days on/off without dealing with the 15 minutes follow ups, prior authorization, replying to messages to one's inbox constantly. But the 7 days on/off is not for everyone. Some people LOVE it; others HATE it.
Yeah but this is not something that any of us graduate residency knowing how to do so not applicable to like 90 percent of psychiatrists
Mostly true.
There are definitely some benefits like space for 2 people costing less than 2x 1 person (same as house/apt), as well as not having to redouble effort for policy, forms, etc. Downside is that all your financial eggs are then in one basket and you may not want to work next to your significant other all day/everyday. With dual physician household you shouldn't need to maximize gain to achieve your financial goals, so I would make sure each of you does the type of practice you most want to do. If that happens to be PP, then sure you would have a leg up on most solo PP folks for cost and effort basis.
It is similar everyone is 99214 and half or more are 90833 if you do 30 minute appointments
