One of my attendings also says something similar. Midlevels are here to stay, but that they will get the ASA1/2s. The really sick patients will be left to the doctors to care for and that is precisely who they need to treat them. Maybe it is a bit grim to accept that anesthetists are going to be treating patients, likely independent in many places, it does illustrate that there are many patients who require the knowledge, expertise, and experience of physicians.
Rads in Mississippi?
Rads in Mississippi?
"Study limited by patient's body habitus". Those problems can easily be fixed
are these right? I didn't think rads got paid that well, unless you're including interventional and such.
AuntMinnie does a salary scan which breaks it down via experience, practice setting, and subspecialty. A little limited by sample size but about 370k for VIR from all states, all practice types etc.
. They still charge the same amount and the CRNAs get paid 1/2-1/3 of what he gets paid. I think he's making more money now.
Exactly. There's another anesthesiologist that I know who does just that too. His practice contracts out to the hospital and hired a few CRNAs to work for them. Now instead of sitting in one OR at a time he can cover multiple ones with CRNAs and hang out during the operations...or if he's feeling really ambitious actually cover one of the operations himself
People who get concerned about CRNAs replacing doctors have to remember that somebody has to be liable for everything in the end...and the nurses don't necessarily want it to be them. I think people also get concerned about CRNAs decreasing the amount of anesthesiologists because each one can cover multiple cases now. I don't know if that's such a problem. There is such a thing as a replacement rate. Old doctors retire every year so you have to have a certain amount coming in just to replace them. Plus there's not really going to ever be a shortage of operations in the near future.
Yeah I've never understood why Path isn't always included in conversations about lifestyle specialties that also pay fairly well. It's not for everyone, but the same can be said about any of the other "ROADs". I worked 3 years in 2 different private hospital pathology labs and saw how good and predictable the hours were (mainly 8-5). "Call" does exist technically, but in 3 years, I only know of the pathologists being called back to the hospital twice! One was for abnormal lab results that turned out to be a busted machine, and the other was an acute GI obstruction patient being operated on at 10pm that turned out to have undiagnosed colon cancer. 99% of the time call is taken from home, and even then it just doesn't happen too often. There are many subspecialties (including cytopath and dermpath which actually do allow you to see patients regularly if you desire) and there is also some business aspects (generally this work is contracted out to management companies). Also, you're technically in charge of the hospital clinical lab, but day to day operations and even most major decisions are taken care of by medical lab technicians and supervisors. The only thing I can't speak to is how different academic path is from PP path. But aside from the ongoing debate about the job market for path, it's not a bad specialty to consider if you can handle not having to interact with patients and do H and P's forever more (for some of you, I'm sure that wouldn't be an issue).
