Salaries

[TIAgirl]

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Does anyone have any ideas or information about the fate of neurology salaries after the health care bill passed the senate?

 

[Baritonebass]

I think you should relax and wait to see what the composite bill(house and senate looks like)... Then depending on how many people it pisses off(Big Pharma, Pro-life, pro-choice) it may never see the light of day

 

[BrainWorks]

I think you should relax and wait to see what the composite bill(house and senate looks like)... Then depending on how many people it pisses off(Big Pharma, Pro-life, pro-choice) it may never see the light of day

I agree. They have already delayed the 21% pay cuts via CMS. And another bill that will reformat the SGR system is hopefully around the corner (passed in the House of Reps and on Senate floor). Cross your fingers.

 

[dave2626]

IT'll probably be $20/ hour. But if you want to hire a plumber to come to your house to fix the pipes it will cost you $75/hour.... Health care is a "right" after all. Indoor plumbing (which offers far more long term health benefits than a good neurologist can offer) is a privilege.

 

[McGillGrad]

IT'll probably be $20/ hour. But if you want to hire a plumber to come to your house to fix the pipes it will cost you $75/hour.... Health care is a "right" after all. Indoor plumbing (which offers far more long term health benefits than a good neurologist can offer) is a privilege.

Plumbers have unions. Doctors do not.

 

[digitlnoize]

Plumbers have unions. Doctors do not.

Yet.

 

[McGillGrad]

Yet.

Doctors cannot strike, on moral and ethical grounds, so there is no rational for an union. The main weapon of an union is striking.

 

[digitlnoize]

Doctors cannot strike, on moral and ethical grounds, so there is no rational for an union. The main weapon of an union is striking.

Again I say...yet. Wait until we get pissed off enough. And legally, we may not be able to "strike," but we can "retire."

 

[bluntdissector]

Doctors cannot strike, on moral and ethical grounds, so there is no rational for an union. The main weapon of an union is striking.

Some of the doctors in South Africa went on strike last year - and it started a lot of debate as to whether they 'are allowed to'...there was an interesting argument made in an article which I am now trying to find...
😕

 

[McGillGrad]

Some of the doctors in South Africa went on strike last year - and it started a lot of debate as to whether they 'are allowed to'...there was an interesting argument made in an article which I am now trying to find...
😕

South Africa has to import physicians from Cuba and Iran to treat people in the outer townships. South Africa also permits cars to be outfitted with flame-throwers to prevent car-jackings. Thus, not exactly comparing oranges to oranges.

 

[bluntdissector]

South Africa has to import physicians from Cuba and Iran to treat people in the outer townships. South Africa also permits cars to be outfitted with flame-throwers to prevent car-jackings. Thus, not exactly comparing oranges to oranges.

that's kind of overdramatic. i live here, after all! 🙂 and those doctors from abroad are quite bad - they usually repeat their final year here, often twice. but we need them as only have 8 med schools for 50 million people...and the doctors left partly because of poor salaries! 🙂

 

[bluntdissector]

excuse the grammar, etc - rushed post from my phone!

 

[McGillGrad]

excuse the grammar, etc - rushed post from my phone!

There was no insult intended. I know you are having issues with the prawns and such, currently. 🙂

Seriously, the dire under-supply and consequent issues with long hours and little resources forces the physicians to take a stand on humanitarian grounds, not in the name of personal finances.

 

[MossPoh]

There was no insult intended. I know you are having issues with the prawns and such, currently. 🙂

Seriously, the dire under-supply and consequent issues with long hours and little resources forces the physicians to take a stand on humanitarian grounds, not in the name of personal finances.

There were strikes in Germany too. The strike wasn't a complete ignoring of all patients. If someone had an MI or something then it was dealt with. It was all the elective and non-lifethreatening issues that were ignored.

 

[bluntdissector]

There were strikes in Germany too. The strike wasn't a complete ignoring of all patients. If someone had an MI or something then it was dealt with. It was all the elective and non-lifethreatening issues that were ignored.

Same here - emergency services went on runnin.

 

[neurologist]

South Africa also permits cars to be outfitted with flame-throwers to prevent car-jackings.

Oh, damn, this is cool!

I'm posting the video link for all the gun nuts over in the sociopolitical forum . . .