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As I've been quoted multiple times on this board, the job market is completely out of control!!
 
Your lobby is weak, and your collective standards are low.

If I were in pathology now, I'd switch.

If I were a practicing pathologist and my only job offer was for this kind of work making 110k a year, I'd go back and do another residency.

Your field looks like its beyond repair, and your governing body is inept.
 
Substance said:
Your lobby is weak, and your collective standards are low.

If I were in pathology now, I'd switch.

If I were a practicing pathologist and my only job offer was for this kind of work making 110k a year, I'd go back and do another residency.

Your field looks like its beyond repair, and your governing body is inept.
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Dude you arent a path resident? Arent you the one who posted on all the bad path programs out there who use residents as slaves? Why are you commenting on bad path programs when you arent a path resident?

There are seriously many posters on here that have issues, you being one of them. This goes to show you that you cant really read into what anyone says on this forum, except for a select few.
 
KeratinPearls said:
Dude you arent a path resident? Arent you the one who posted on all the bad path programs out there who use residents as slaves? Why are you commenting on bad path programs when you arent a path resident?

There are seriously many posters on here that have issues, you being one of them. This goes to show you that you cant really read into what anyone says on this forum, except for a select few.
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This individual is one of the a@@hats I was referring to in a prior rant.
 
NuckingFuts said:
This individual is one of the a@@hats I was referring to in a prior rant.
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Not only is he not a path resident, he also doesn't practice in the US (he's from Canada I believe). That is why I ignore everything he posts. He is so bitter about a field he has absolutely nothing to do with, makes me think a pathologist peed in his cornflakes or he tried to match here and failed. Either way, dude has issues.
 
This might be the Puerto Rico job(s) that keep getting posted at CareerMD.com, or at least something similar.

http://www.careermd.com/physicians/viewlisting.aspx?listingid=288999224&userid=1213926&nltitleid=22

Although, one of our junior faculty interviewed in PR, at one of the LCME med schools there I think, on a lark (hey, free trip to the Caribbean) and said that while Spanish was helpful, it was not required since lectures were in English, and they said you'd become functionally conversant quick enough.

I have a very hard time imagining a US-based practice that would actually require Spanish fluency even in far south CA/AZ/TX/FL. Maybe in Miami there are enough Spanish-first professional people (physicians and non-physicians) to make up a pathology practice.
 
TMZ2007 said:
This might be the Puerto Rico job(s) that keep getting posted at CareerMD.com, or at least something similar.

http://www.careermd.com/physicians/viewlisting.aspx?listingid=288999224&userid=1213926&nltitleid=22

Although, one of our junior faculty interviewed in PR, at one of the LCME med schools there I think, on a lark (hey, free trip to the Caribbean) and said that while Spanish was helpful, it was not required since lectures were in English, and they said you'd become functionally conversant quick enough.

I have a very hard time imagining a US-based practice that would actually require Spanish fluency even in far south CA/AZ/TX/FL. Maybe in Miami there are enough Spanish-first professional people (physicians and non-physicians) to make up a pathology practice.
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I grew up in FL and I can't imagine even there a physician wouldn't be fluent enough in English to communicate with other docs. For staff though, yeah, that could be possible.
 
A friend practicing in South Florida (originally from Connecticut) says the entire region has numerous labs (private and academic) where some staff (histotechs, PAs) hardly speak a lick of English. I wonder how they manage to get licensed down there.
 
NuckingFuts said:
A friend practicing in South Florida (originally from Connecticut) says the entire region has numerous labs (private and academic) where some staff (histotechs, PAs) hardly speak a lick of English. I wonder how they manage to get licensed down there.
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Growing up in South Florida it seems that english is the second language in some places. They are most likely able to get their license because Florida seems big on; If you don't know english, we will supply most things for you in Spanish to accommodate you.
 
MedPsy82 said:
Growing up in South Florida it seems that english is the second language in some places. They are most likely able to get their license because Florida seems big on; If you don't know english, we will supply most things for you in Spanish to accommodate you.
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Yeah I get that. But one would think, wouldn't that potentially compromise patient care?

Say you're a non-Spanish speaking pathologist, doing a frozen on multiple margins, and you have a very limited English speaking tech whose primary lingo is Espanol, cutting your sections, staining your slides.

Let's say you request deepers on bock "E". It is a very real possibility that you would in fact end up with deepers on block "I", because when one says "E" in English, it translates to "I" in Spanish.

I suppose that's why the job post this thread is referring to is looking for a Spanish-speaking pathologist.
 
NuckingFuts said:
Yeah I get that. But one would think, wouldn't that potentially compromise patient care?

Say you're a non-Spanish speaking pathologist, doing a frozen on multiple margins, and you have a very limited English speaking tech whose primary lingo is Espanol, cutting your sections, staining your slides.

Let's say you request deepers on bock "E". It is a very real possibility that you would in fact end up with deepers on block "I", because when one says "E" in English, it translates to "I" in Spanish.

I suppose that's why the job post this thread is referring to is looking for a Spanish-speaking pathologist.
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Not saying it is right, it just is what it is unfortunately.
 
TMZ2007 said:
This might be the Puerto Rico job(s) that keep getting posted at CareerMD.com, or at least something similar.

http://www.careermd.com/physicians/viewlisting.aspx?listingid=288999224&userid=1213926&nltitleid=22

Although, one of our junior faculty interviewed in PR, at one of the LCME med schools there I think, on a lark (hey, free trip to the Caribbean) and said that while Spanish was helpful, it was not required since lectures were in English, and they said you'd become functionally conversant quick enough.

I have a very hard time imagining a US-based practice that would actually require Spanish fluency even in far south CA/AZ/TX/FL. Maybe in Miami there are enough Spanish-first professional people (physicians and non-physicians) to make up a pathology practice.
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No the first job posting says northeast. Even upon Puerto Rico, Ponce is on the south coast.
 
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