This times 1000. The last few years i have worked all around the country as a locum for numerous AMC’s including the reviled and dreaded “Deathstar” and can say one thing...any W-2 position with an AMC is the worst of all worlds. Benefits are measly AND your work hours are ill defined AND you have zero security (only worth the cost to replace you with the next new grad vs spread your workload amongst the remaining docs). Since they would never commit to you (true OWNERSHIP and a job that can’t be terminated on a whim), don’t commit to them. Work ONLY as a locum with defined hours at a solid rate, defined overtime/call RATES and a zero cancellation policy. Keep a foot in at several and when (not if!) they pressure you, you can press right back. The people who take the W-2 spot with them are most often less confident docs (for good reason), those with a checkered past, and docs who lack the ability to interpret the fine print in AMC contracts (newbies). Welcome to the jungle!
as an aside, wasn't one of Deathstar's top brass allegedly having an affair with a head CRNA before his fall from grace, including a drunk and disorderly arrest and a picture in the paper?
Deathstar??? More like wandering moral compass (pun intended).