Hospitalist vs HemeOnc fellowship

[anonperson]

My wife and I are five kids in, and she would still like to have more.

5 kids and wanting more?!?

My brother in Christ, get the vasectomy before exhaustion kills you

At the same time, my wife brings up the age-old arguments about the prestige of being the "smartest doctor" in the room, being the go-to guy for my patients and the lack of intellectual stimulation as a run of the mill hospitalist

No one really cares about being the smartest person in the room.

Not sure why anyone really wants to be the go to guy for their patients. It's annoying and patients will bring up stuff outside your area of expertise.

I see it in obstetrics.

"Ma'am, I don't know what's going on with your ear pain and even if I looked inside, I don't know what I'm looking for."

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You don't sound like your heart is into the fellowship anyways. No shame. You'll be a board certified internist shortly, that's pretty good in my book

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[Splenda88]

It completely is preference, I would not want to round in the hospital all day and dealing with social stuff either. Also as heme/onc that cubicle to cubicle 4 days a week seeing 16-20 pts a day can make you high 6 figures.

I agree that the money in heme is really good. 500-700k/yr is nothing to scoff at. My extent of dealing with social "stuff" is to spend 15 minutes of my time daily talking to social workers. I think hospitalists dealing with social issues is overblown.

 

[eyeeye_captain]

I agree that the money in heme is really good. 500-700k/yr is nothing to scoff at. My extent of dealing with social "stuff" is to spend 15 minutes of my time daily talking to social workers. I think hospitalists dealing with social issues is overblown.

Even years ago at the county and VA we had social workers on the team. It was great, the students all got their placement rock garden that the residents and attendings could basically wave at from the hallway.

“Did they wake up? No complaints? Good. Moving on.”

 

[MD46]

I agree that the money in heme is really good. 500-700k/yr is nothing to scoff at. My extent of dealing with social "stuff" is to spend 15 minutes of my time daily talking to social workers. I think hospitalists dealing with social issues is overblown.

500-700 is low end, more like 800-1.5 as most of us are seeing more patients by choice, at least I see 25-30 a day.

 

[Splenda88]

500-700 is low end, more like 800-1.5 as most of us are seeing more patients by choice, at least I see 25-30 a day.

You are killing it. That's great money right there.

 

[MifflinDunder]

500-700 is low end, more like 800-1.5 as most of us are seeing more patients by choice, at least I see 25-30 a day.

What’s the common range in non-academic malignant heme?

 

[gutonc]

What’s the common range in non-academic malignant heme?

It's all about how much meat you move.

If you see 30 99123s a day, 4 days a week, 46 weeks a year, you're going to pull in >12K wRVU. At $90-100/wRVU, that's an easy 7 figures.

You'll also probably go insane, but you'll be able to afford a really nice inpatient psych facility.

 

[HemeOncHopeful19]

500-700 is low end, more like 800-1.5 as most of us are seeing more patients by choice, at least I see 25-30 a day.