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Anyone have to let any of their staff go yet?
Anyone have to let any of their staff go yet?
referring urologist has laid off office staff.
In our hospital, all the admin have taken 50% pay cuts
April Fools!
They cut minimum wage workers hours, lay people off. The people who keep the lights on, you know, yet they have meetings simply to justify their administrative jobs that shouldn't exist, bloated 6 figure salaries, talk about how COVID is not a big threat, and how we can figure out how to keep the money rolling in.
I mean I can’t believe there are hospital admins who think covid isn’t a big deal lol. I believe you, just saying this is not my experience, we get nonstop emails all day about it
At my hospital (a large operation with satellites), yes, admins are pretty stressed out today about whether they can keep their jobs or not.
If the House signs off on the relief package by Friday, there will probably be an additional wave of layoffs and furloughs as people will start receiving checks and furlough-dependent salary supplementations.
One could make the argument that with the economy, the way it is, it makes more sense to fractionated more. I’m starting to feel the administration pressure regarding numbers despite an active pandemic going on!
your admins are insane lol. how do they not have bigger fish to fry right now
I agree but I guess it’s better than them asking me to go intubate some COVID patients in the ICU. Either way, I feel on edge and my staff is very uneasy especially the therapists.
Name and shame they don't deserve to be in healthcare.One could make the argument that with the economy, the way it is, it makes more sense to fractionated more. I’m starting to feel the administration pressure regarding numbers despite an active pandemic going on!
Therapists and RNs are being doubly punished for being hourly. Still have to show up and risk infection AND getting less pay or having to take pto to cover lost hours.
Meanwhile, all the salaries staff are at home, doing nothing, and getting full pay.
Believe me the hourly folks have noticed.
Therapists and RNs are being doubly punished for being hourly. Still have to show up and risk infection AND getting less pay or having to take pto to cover lost hours.
Meanwhile, all the salaries staff are at home, doing nothing, and getting full pay.
Believe me the hourly folks have noticed.
My admin is now trying to compress the radiation treatment schedule to the morning period alone.
I'm not a fan of this for many reasons and obviously the therapists aren't. Wouldn't you think it would be worse from a transmission standpoint moving 12-15 patients from over the course of 7-8 hours into a 4 hour window?
Name and shame they don't deserve to be in healthcare.
Had a meeting with some RadInc admins this morning (moderately trustworthy characters). They are not planning layoffs but are projecting staff and MD shortages up to 4 months from now. It is due to the upcoming need to quarantine people.
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Can't social distance in the waiting room. I agree with maybe shrinking times (like not 9-5) but maybe something gentler like 6 hours.
We've been texting all of our patients when their time is ready. They then come straight into the vault from their car.
We only let one family member in with pt for new consults and observe social distancing in the waiting room and throughout the clinic when possible.We've been texting all of our patients when their time is ready. They then come straight into the vault from their car.
Have you guys noticed that some patients still want treatment and don't really want to postpone/defer. 0/2 so far this week in trying to defer a skin and prostate pt.
It's no MississippiHaha you must be in Florida because that’s the only place people are that crazy.
Are the hourly staff still keeping their hours?
We only let one family member in with pt for new consults and observe social distancing in the waiting room and throughout the clinic when possible.
The texting thing is a good idea.
Have you guys noticed that some patients still want treatment and don't really want to postpone/defer. 0/2 so far this week in trying to defer a skin and prostate pt.
Yes none of mine want to postpone. But I start to think it may be valid. Who's to say things are gonna look better 1-2 months from now? I think it's wishful thinking. I tell them both sides of the coin, let them flip and pick.
Yes none of mine want to postpone. But I start to think it may be valid. Who's to say things are gonna look better 1-2 months from now? I think it's wishful thinking. I tell them both sides of the coin, let them flip and pick.
This is what I'm thinking as well. Only for people I wouldn't treat for 3-4 months (and that isn't many) would I really consider holding unless the patient themselves is worried for some reason. Then we discuss pros and cons of treating now vs waiting.
Good pointI've thought about this as well. I'm not in a "hot spot" but anticipate things being really no better here in 6 weeks (and may actually be worse if social distancing is pulled back). So I don't feel like I need to delay stuff the same way someone in say Detroit or NYC may need to.
Yes none of mine want to postpone. But I start to think it may be valid. Who's to say things are gonna look better 1-2 months from now? I think it's wishful thinking. I tell them both sides of the coin, let them flip and pick.
Same here. Patients get pissed if I even suggest a short delay in their start. All say the same thing: will things really be any different a few months from now?
Then give him 6 months and start RT afterwards with another 2 months of ADT... Non-inferior, potentially a bit more toxic, but why not?I'm not sure 3 months of ADT is going to help your prostate guy you were going to start in a week.
Then give him 6 months and start RT afterwards with another 2 months of ADT... Non-inferior, potentially a bit more toxic, but why not?
Duration of androgen suppression before radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer: radiation therapy oncology group randomized clinical trial 9910 - PubMed
Extending AS duration from 8 weeks to 28 weeks before radiotherapy did not improve outcomes. A lower than expected prostate cancer death rate reduced ability to detect a between-group difference in disease-specific survival. The schedule of 8 weeks of AS before radiotherapy plus 8 weeks of AS...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Well RTOG9910 was mostly intermediate risk. I also like to give 4 months for unfavorable intermediate risk, but at these times it's certainly not wrong to give 8 months in individual, well informed patients.I'm good with that for high risk...I was thinking more of the unfavorable int risk where I'd usually give just 4-6 months total.
Cutbacks for some doctors and nurses as they battle on the front line - The Boston Globe
These financial cutbacks, coming in response to sudden shortfalls during the coronavirus outbreak, have triggered an outcry from doctors and nurses who are already working grueling shifts in demanding working conditions.www.bostonglobe.com
Doing this to ER doctors on the frontlines is unconscionable
If the first person at your hospital system receiving a pay cut isn’t the CEO, who assuredly makes millions of dollars per year, you have my full permission to walk out.