Did anyone mention unequal treatment? I just gave the advice to be aware of program
policies before signing a contract. Why do you have a problem with that?
Bitter much?
Not sure why a select few are acting so hateful in this thread. But it's your problem. What goes on between my program and I regarding my health is between me and them. Same goes for anyone else.
And, for what it's worth, I'm using only already set aside vacation days after my kiddo comes. Unless you now have a problem with people using vacation days too. Jesus Christ.
I don't want to get into another pissing match with you because I'm a guy and you can beat me in a "pissing match". That's a joke!
This is a forum and people are allowed to voice their opinions.
All I did was ask you, " what's the gender difference?" Thats were you pounced. I know you dislike me and that's your perogative. But please try to keep this at a professional level if at all possible.
It is my opinion that choosing a program for its lieniency is like choosing one for lifestyle. You as an anesthesiologist will suffer in the long run. My opinion take it or leave it.
Now, you think I'm bitter about this. Well not exactly because I absolutely adore my female partners. I would not trade them for anyone. But I will tell you that they added a fair amount of stress to my group when they both became pregnant and took the legally and understandable time away from the job. The stress wasn't that the others had to step up to cover the time missed. We were ok with that to a degree. The issue was that people have plans, family trips, family needs, lifestyle plans, the list goes on and on. And we had to either put these plans on hold or hire Locums to cover. We tried to limit locums as much as possible because locums suck in general and they are expensive. But it is unavoidable when 20% of your group is gone.
Now here is the bigger issue. We are employed by the hospital. We are therefore, accountable for our cost. We have a budget. Our administrators devise some bogus budget for anesthesia expenditure for the year. If we go over this budget we must fix it the next year. Locums are expensive. Do you see were I'm going here?
I was asked to come up with a very large sum of money from our group. How am I supposed to handle this? You got any bright ideas?
Now back to the original question. It is my opinion that you should go to the best training program that you can get into. Not that you should choose based on gender or family or location etc. by choosing the best available to you, you will be that much better when you come out and this job will be much easier and your PTS will benefit.
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