I'd like to say "this can' be real," but of course it is.
Residency expansion/fake workforce projections
Linac babysitting mandates
Anti-physician ownership
Woke DEI diversity hiring and promotion
Fraction and IMRT shaming and virtue signaling
Making rad oncs who work in urology practices pariahs
APM, ROCR, whatever the next version of hosing over employed RVU doctors will be
Academic satellite model
Of course making RTTs advanced providers (then what is a physician if not advanced?) is next on this self-immolating list.
Yes they do. I adjust treatment volumes, put patients on break, add fractions, prescribe controlled substances, etc. all the time based on what I learn from daily imaging and OTVs. I have no interest in finding out Jenny McJennison, MSN APRN, FNP-C, DNP, RN, BSN, CPR, LOL has resulted in my early stage head and neck patient ending up in the ICU because they weren't eating for 2 weeks and stopping treatment halfway through.
Are you even allowed to say that you are anti-ASTRO if you work at an academic center? I get the feeling it's like pledging fealty to the communist party of China. Sure, you're free not to be a member. But we'd like for you to spend a few months at a camp learning about why you really should.