Anesthesia Politics Class

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nopain1234 said:
Have you guys heard about this class in some CRNA schools? They literally have mock debates by a fake anesthesiologist and CRNA. One of my new hires was telling me about it last week

The fun is just getting started folks
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It started many years ago, but has really taken off with the DNP BS. That extra year has absolutely zero clinical content. That's why current CRNAs with master's degrees can "upgrade" online to the DNP.
 
nimbus said:
Propaganda is now a required course for the DNP degree?
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They have it for the rn too
They teach them that midlevel nurses are just as good if not better than physicians (use those exact words). They teach them that nurses need to "advocate for their patient" against dangerous physicians. There's a ton of propaganda that starts way earlier than for the dnp degree. The goal of nursing leadership is to replace physicians entirely.
 
GassYous said:
They have it for the rn too
They teach them that midlevel nurses are just as good if not better than physicians (use those exact words). They teach them that nurses need to "advocate for their patient" against dangerous physicians. There's a ton of propaganda that starts way earlier than for the dnp degree. The goal of nursing leadership is to replace physicians entirely.
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Just imagine a hospital run by nurses and nursing midlevels. Patients will be dying left and right.
 
nopain1234 said:
Have you guys heard about this class in some CRNA schools? They literally have mock debates by a fake anesthesiologist and CRNA. One of my new hires was telling me about it last week

The fun is just getting started folks
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This cannot be true.
 
dipriMAN said:
This cannot be true.
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sure it can. The job that I used to work at had a CRNA training program that had a few “lectures”on Anesthesiologist/CRNA relations and the history of the profession on how we stole the field because of the economic opportunities that were present.
 
If you’re debating mid levels you’ve already lost. The way to approach this is to educate med students and non anesthesia residents on the difference between our training and mid levels.

Ultimately surgeons will dictate who takes care of their pts in the OR. Almost every one of them rotate through our departments.
 
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ryanjmy said:
If you’re debating mid levels you’ve already lost. The way to approach this is to educate med students and non anesthesia residents on the difference between our training and mid levels.

Ultimately surgeons will dictate who takes care of their pts in the OR. Almost every one of them rotate through our departments.
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Hate to break it to you, if it were up to the surgeons this is what they would have.
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OptionOffense said:
www.anesthetist.org
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What was that thing about the definition of insanity? Switching one mid-level for another is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. I get the physician support if it's just a matter of burning down the city as you retreat, but the idea that it won't be the same thing in a generation is just delusional.
 
Teillard said:
What was that thing about the definition of insanity? Switching one mid-level for another is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. I get the physician support if it's just a matter of burning down the city as you retreat, but the idea that it won't be the same thing in a generation is just delusional.
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That is your opinion. I happened to have a different opinion for plenty of reasons after being in this arena for a while. If you want to talk about it DM me.
 
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OptionOffense said:
There are enough physicians, not enough MID LEVELS. We need to produce those. But not nursey types. We need AAs to compete with the CRNAS.
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This demonstrates the point exactly...thanks.
 
nopain1234 said:
Funny bc I hear there’s an anesthesiologist shortage all the time
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Just 5 years ago there was an EM shortage even with all the midlevels. They were printing money on locums. Following the pharmacy playbook, they opened a ton of new programs, graduated a bunch of grads and now their job market is trash and their pay goes down consistently. Not exactly what I want for us.
 
GassYous said:
Just 5 years ago there was an EM shortage even with all the midlevels. They were printing money on locums. Following the pharmacy playbook, they opened a ton of new programs, graduated a bunch of grads and now their job market is trash and their pay goes down consistently. Not exactly what I want for us.
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I think the other allied health professions are basically a warning to all.
 
Dr. Rude said:
Great idea. Right up there with slitting one's own throat.
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Therein lies the conundrum of anesthesiology.

We don’t want too many docs bc it threatens our high salaries and thus have to rely on mid levels for the volume despite the eminent threat of take over.

The paradox continues
 
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nopain1234 said:
Therein lies the conundrum of anesthesiology.

We don’t want too many docs bc it threatens our high salaries and thus have to rely on mid levels for the volume despite the eminent threat of take over.

The paradox continues
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To be fair that’s the case with all of medicine - and all jobs of all sorts really, not just us.
 
kidthor said:
To be fair that’s the case with all of medicine - and all jobs of all sorts really, not just us.
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You can’t apply a one size fits all for all specialties regarding midlevels.

There are extremes and anesthesia is probably the worst of them in terms of encroachment and future threat
 
nopain1234 said:
Can you expand as to why having more physicians is a bad thing?
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Imagine you live in a city and you're the only person in town that can install an oven. You're doing great. Now imagine they've decide to train 100 more oven installers and they're going to set them up in your town. Now you're screwed.

In a nutshell.
 
nopain1234 said:
Funny bc I hear there’s an anesthesiologist shortage all the time
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Let's all be honest. The shortage is in underserved areas and to more accurate, in underserved rural areas. The pay usually isn't that great and more often then not they're places people don't want to live and raise families, so there is a shortage of physicians, usually specialist. In the cities or near cities anesthesiologists are falling off trees, so in that case it become supply vs demand. There are so many around that we can pay them crap (NYC, SoCal, etc)

In the rural areas they're fighting low supply combined with poor payor mixes/mostly medicare, medicaid that also contribute to no one wanting to go work there.
 
nimbus said:
Apparently there’s also a shortage of 22yo college grads. But the money won’t go far with $6 gas, $4000 rent, and $20 burgers and cocktails.

www.wsj.com

Behold, the New Starting Salary for Some Graduates Is $100,000

Entry-level professionals in tech, banking and consulting are getting showered with cash.
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This is what I mean about the labor shortage and the so called wage gains. They are modest if they exist at all and have been eating away with inflation.
 
Twiggidy said:
Let's all be honest. The shortage is in underserved areas and to more accurate, in underserved rural areas. The pay usually isn't that great and more often then not they're places people don't want to live and raise families, so there is a shortage of physicians, usually specialist. In the cities or near cities anesthesiologists are falling off trees, so in that case it become supply vs demand. There are so many around that we can pay them crap (NYC, SoCal, etc)

In the rural areas they're fighting low supply combined with poor payor mixes/mostly medicare, medicaid that also contribute to no one wanting to go work there.
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There’s a shortage in big cities too. Enough to move the needle just a little in terms of income. It happened 20-25 yrs ago too.
 
And now you have a residency program in Stockton. Why? This same hospital/AMC has been trying to recruit anesthesiologists for YEARS but who the heck wants to live in Stockon? So what you do is get yourself a residency program because a) the labor is cheap and b) easier to get the position filled with all the candidates dying to to anesthesia AND live in California (but again, it's Stockton) I'm sure there will be people who bite on this who will decide to commute from Sacramento or the East Bay but that's a rough life.
 
Twiggidy said:
And now you have a residency program in Stockton. Why? This same hospital/AMC has been trying to recruit anesthesiologists for YEARS but who the heck wants to live in Stockon? So what you do is get yourself a residency program because a) the labor is cheap and b) easier to get the position filled with all the candidates dying to to anesthesia AND live in California (but again, it's Stockton) I'm sure there will be people who bite on this who will decide to commute from Sacramento or the East Bay but that's a rough life.
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2 newer residencies in the Central Valley. One in Stockton and one in Visalia. Heard through a friend that the attending gig in Visalia pays very well. It does make sense to produce your own anesthesiologists if the area has a chronic shortage. The challenge would be to get the graduating residents to stay.
 
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nimbus said:
2 newer residencies in the Central Valley. One in Stockton and one in Visalia. Heard through a friend that the attending gig in Visalia pays very well. It does make sense to produce your own anesthesiologists if the area has a chronic shortage. The challenge would be to get the graduating residents to stay.
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Looks like Sutter is also planning to start an anesthesia residency in the Sacramento area. Including Riverside and Thousand Oaks, that’s 5 new programs in the state in a very short period of time.
 
nimbus said:
Looks like Sutter is also planning to start an anesthesia residency in the Sacramento area. Including Riverside and Thousand Oaks, that’s 5 new programs in the state in a very short period of time.
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Wow! At that rate you won’t even need AAs or crnas.
 
nimbus said:
Looks like Sutter is also planning to start an anesthesia residency in the Sacramento area. Including Riverside and Thousand Oaks, that’s 5 new programs in the state in a very short period of time.
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Wow - hopefully this new surge of residencies doesn’t cause us to crumble like EM did…

Sutter is a pretty good system, but with Davis there how many new grads does the Sacramento area really need? Are these places starting residencies due to difficulty filling their own employment needs?
 
kidthor said:
Wow - hopefully this new surge of residencies doesn’t cause us to crumble like EM did…

Sutter is a pretty good system, but with Davis there how many new grads does the Sacramento area really need? Are these places starting residencies due to difficulty filling their own employment needs?
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There are AMCs in that area that have high turnover
 
I cannot believe how dumb political organizations representing physicians are.
 
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