giving up part of your practice

[caligas]

Has anybody here given up a specific aspect of their practice, like stopped doing o.b. or cardiac? what were the circumstances? Have you been happy with your decision?

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[Stank811]

In what context? Joining a different group that does not provide a certain subset of an anesthesiologist practice? Your group stops providing certain services? Your group forms specialty teams which results in certain providers not doing cardiac or OB?

 

[caligas]

As in a personal decision to stop doing certain cases. Like dropping out of the cardiac sub-pool of your anesthesia group and just doing general cases.

 

[nimbus]

I'm in a situation where I would have to actively seek out OB work if I wanted to continue doing it. I gave it up 9 years ago with no regrets.

 

[caligas]

I'm in a situation where I would have to actively seek out OB work if I wanted to continue doing it. I gave it up 9 years ago with no regrets.

Cool. Are you pretty far into your career? Do you ever worry about needeing o.b. skills for a future job change?

 

[gasdoc77]

I'm in a situation where I would have to actively seek out OB work if I wanted to continue doing it. I gave it up 9 years ago with no regrets.

He could always go back and do that OB fellowship if he wanted to pick it back up.

 

[deleted171991]

He could always go back and do that OB fellowship if he wanted to pick it back up.

I think all he needs is a few supervised spinals/epidurals and a few weeks of reading some good OB anesthesia books. OB fellowship is slightly above ambulatory anesthesia fellowship, in my book. But maybe I am wrong, since I haven't been practicing OB either.

 

[drmwvr]

Cool. Are you pretty far into your career? Do you ever worry about needeing o.b. skills for a future job change?

I did the same thing, and I suspect that after several thousand labor epidurals, I'd be back up to speed in about 3 days. Surgical epidurals are harder to do anyway, so it isn't as if someone who hasn't been to the labor deck for years couldn't jump right back in. I can throw a spinal in from the hallway, like most of my peers, so that is a non issue. The OB 'skill set' is pretty narrow and there's a lot of crossover.

 

[IlDestriero]

I gave up adult anesthesia and couldn't be happier.

 

[BobBarker]

Did my first OB shift in 6 months last night on extremely short notice. Most difficult thing of the night was figuring out where the new call room was.

 

[nimbus]

I did the same thing, and I suspect that after several thousand labor epidurals, I'd be back up to speed in about 3 days. Surgical epidurals are harder to do anyway, so it isn't as if someone who hasn't been to the labor deck for years couldn't jump right back in. I can throw a spinal in from the hallway, like most of my peers, so that is a non issue. The OB 'skill set' is pretty narrow and there's a lot of crossover.

Agreed. I did a LOT of OB before I stopped. I'm not concerned about picking it back up if the need arose.

 

[Triple AAA]

I gave up chronic pain mgmt, if that counts