Endocrinologists lifestyle

[bochaw]

Hello fellows, recently medscape published a paper regarding the lifestyle and happiness, and endocrinologist's happiness and lifestyle is among the lowest of all IM specializes. I am just wondering how you all feel about this survey. I thought with one of the best work life balance this specialize should have been the highest happiness.

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[Raryn]

I'm pretty happy. I'm outpatient only with 36 hours of patient facing care each week, though obviously more after taking into account documentation burden.

I think most of my peers are too. @rokshana would be a good one to talk to.

 

[aafisahar]

Chiller than the other side of the pillow

 

[rokshana]

I’m overall happy in that I like the clinical aspects of endocrinology over doing say IM, so money isn’t the end all for me.

That being said, I’m unusual in that I do locums and have a lot more control of my work environment and amount of time I work.

Also I go to places where they are lacking care...my patient base is not the “worried well” ...they are sick and are grateful for the care...i feel appreciated and I think that makes a big difference.

IMO , most endos like what they do...they just hate the crap that goes with being in healthcare and the difficulty in getting meds to our pts...some of which are life saving meds.

 

[bobow98]

I used to moonlight at a place when I was a resident where the other guy was sometimes a 50 year old endocrinologist. The rate was about 100-110 an hour for overnights, granted there wasn't much action between 12am and 6am usually. He did it because he has a daughter in college. I would NOT want to be hustling that hard for 100/hr at that age, just sayin. I think he was underpaid.

 

[rokshana]

I used to moonlight at a place when I was a resident where the other guy was sometimes a 50 year old endocrinologist. The rate was about 100-110 an hour for overnights, granted there wasn't much action between 12am and 6am usually. He did it because he has a daughter in college. I would NOT want to be hustling that hard for 100/hr at that age, just sayin. I think he was underpaid.

Who the hell does overnights for 100/hr?

 

[tantacles]

Who the hell does overnights for 100/hr?

For a resident, that’s not atypical. But for an attending? Yeah, pretty bad.

 

[bobow98]

For a resident, that’s not atypical. But for an attending? Yeah, pretty bad.

To be fair the work was so easy 90% of the time. But 10% of the time it was on the level of PEA from drug overdose in the patient room - direct injections into their PICC lines.
Those weren't nice wake up calls overnight.