Somnia another predatory practice

[Planktonmd]

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Just reviving an old thread to agree what a predatory practice Somnia is.

They offered me a daily rate of 1400 and my malpractice is deducted from my daily rate. Can you guys believe that? I mean it should be at least 1600 a day with malpractice coverage on top of that. I didn't even ask about car or hotel because I am sure they would deduct that too.

Apparently they have some per diems who maybe have been lucky enough to negotiate above this BS. At least I hope so because really, are people OK with these?

If they didn't think they can get someone to accept that deal they wouldn't have offered it to you.

 

[deleted126335]

The market is what the market is. You can't work for yesterday's rates. Only today's. Geography also matters.

 

[nimbus]

I’ve read a lot of your posts, and really appreciate your candor. I’m a medical student and will be picking my specialty soon. I’m very interested in the subject matter/skill set of anesthesiology and the ability to make good money while not working like a surgeon. I know, however, that the field is incredibly vulnerable at the moment and surgery is the safest from mid levels and hospital admin oppression. The problem is, I have zero interest in becoming a surgeon. Would you recommend suffering through a surgery residency to someone like me?

That's what I figured. This is just depressing because I am actually competitive for ortho, ENT, etc. but have no interest in them whatsoever. It makes me mad that greed, laziness, and shortcuts have just about killed the field of anesthesiology.

It seems as though medical school is a waste of time for those not interested in surgery these days.

The first post makes you sound like you want to make a lot of money without working hard. In the second post you seem to blame older anesthesiologists for wanting the same thing. Regardless of what field you pick, you will have to work hard if you want to make a decent living.

If you pick anesthesia, you will have to work harder than most surgeons in order to make a similar income. Especially in fields like derm, urology and ENT, minor office procedures pay very well with little stress or risk.

 

[Twiggidy]

I'm interested in the acute changes/manipulation of cardio/pulm physiology, giving a patient a drug and seeing an immediate effect, resuscitation, and crisis situations. So naturally I'm drawn to gas and EM, but I fully realize how precarious of a position both of these fields are in. I am simply not interested in completing the brutal training required to become a surgeon and living in the hospital. Cutting people open and standing in one spot for hours on end, no matter the body part, has no appeal to me. I've thought about ophtho and IM subspecialties. Ophtho is facing real encroachment from optometrists, however, and IM subspecialties require suffering through an IM residency and 6+ years of post grad training.

Also stop calling it Gas.

 

[deleted162650]

Also stop calling it Gas.

But it’s soooo much easier to type than volatile liquid

 

[nimbus]

But it’s soooo much easier to type than volatile liquid

Or vapor, or vapour

 

[Mad Jack]

Somnia took over my friends contract in Bakersfield 4 years ago and it's been a complete mess at Kern ever since.

My friend was pulling close to mid $500s with 10 weeks vacation. U work like a dog but u are getting paid fairly.

Now they offer like $350k and give u like 6 weeks...at same time working like a dog.

Think the administrator who made the initial ontract with Somnia got fired long ago from that medical center.

Sad thing is my brother and sister know those Somnia guys way back in the days from Yale when they were residents. They said those guys were always scheming and weren't very good residents back then. Trying to do the least amount of work as possible.

Now they try to pay the least amount. Ummm

That's typical. As the old saying goes, the bottom quarter of people make the worst doctors but the most money, the top quarter end up in academics making the least while losing touch with regular practice, and the middle half make the best day-to-day clinicians while landing somewhere in between...

 

[Twiggidy]

Or vapor, or vapour

I can get behind the British version

 

[Psai]

I can get behind the British version

I am a vapour doctor. Vaping physician. Vape doc, oh wait that sounds too much like David Newman.

 

[gasdoc77]

necrobump: I wonder if Somnia has apologized to this physician after firing him for his pro-mask position and asked him to return. NOT A CHANCE. Young grads, understand what it means to be an employee rather than a partner....It means you are only worth the cost to replace you and you can be let go for whatever the whim of the moment may be. Good luck eeeking a 20+ year career out of that.

Since AMC/employed physician contracts are 90 days without cause anyway (despite being X "years"), only work for them as a locum for defined hours/pay.

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[Beach bum]

Or don’t work for them at all! It will be interesting to see how long current shortage of qualified providers will last…shocking how quickly our specialty has succumbed to all these predatory practices.

 

[nimbus]

Ever since Somnia took over in Long Beach (in 2019) and in Palm Springs (many years ago), they’ve been in perpetual recruitment mode for cardiac anesthesiologists.

Anesthesiologists at Long Beach’s St. Mary Medical Center will stay on board despite change in contract

Head doctors sounded an alarm last month that the change could mean replacing veteran anesthesiologists with “unqualified or problem anesthesiologists.”

www.presstelegram.com

 

[Tony C anesthesia]

Ever since Somnia took over in Long Beach (in 2019) and in Palm Springs (many years ago), they’ve been in perpetual recruitment mode for cardiac anesthesiologists.

Anesthesiologists at Long Beach’s St. Mary Medical Center will stay on board despite change in contract

Head doctors sounded an alarm last month that the change could mean replacing veteran anesthesiologists with “unqualified or problem anesthesiologists.”

www.presstelegram.com

Is there an update on situation how things played out?

 

[Tony C anesthesia]

Is there an update on situation how things played out?

any update here?