Urgent Care Physicians Fired by Chicago Hospital

[SneakyBooger]

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Leadership also stated in the email that they are "working closely with these physicians to assist them with finding alternative positions within Edward-Elmhurst Health or outside our system," but doctors noted that they face a saturated Chicago healthcare market and they're likely to have to relocate.

When asked to confirm the layoffs, Keith Hartenberger, a spokesperson for Edward-Elmhurst Health, said in a statement: "We continue to assess our care delivery models in the interest of providing cost-effective care to our patients. We shared with physicians that we have plans to change the model next year at some outpatient sites and are working with anyone affected to find alternative placement.

15 Doctors Fired From Chicago-Area Health System

Physicians 'broadsided' by their termination

www.medpagetoday.com

Crazy stuff

 

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15 Doctors Fired From Chicago-Area Health System

Physicians 'broadsided' by their termination

www.medpagetoday.com

Crazy stuff

insane how docs aren’t allowed to unionize and protect themselves but nurses are

if nurses are “doing our jobs” then they should also not be allowed to unionize OR preferably docs should be able to protect themselves!

 

[dieABRdie]

I may be wrong but I believe the reason doctors haven't unionized was traditionally because they were contractors rather than employees... and you have to be an employee in order to organize under the law.

IMHO another reason is because of professional differences. Nurses typically have a "shift work" mentality and doctors have traditionally felt "ownership" of the relationship with the patient... which would lead us to be much less likely to walk away.

The key word here is traditionally. With more and more physicians becoming employees I am surprised we aren't seeing it more often. I think maybe that even though many doctors are shift workers today... we still feel that responsibility to our patients that makes it difficult.

There certainly is a precedent:

Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine (Published 2016)

An Oregon medical center’s plan to increase efficiency by outsourcing doctors drove a group of its hospitalists to fight back by banding together.

www.nytimes.com

 

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15 Doctors Fired From Chicago-Area Health System

Physicians 'broadsided' by their termination

www.medpagetoday.com

Crazy stuff

November 26, 2019— Perry Williams
"I would say going to medical school and doing residency will soon be a very expensive waste of time if this is where medicine is going."

 

[evilbooyaa]

This has nothing to do with Rad Onc or radiation oncologists but is being discussed in other specialty-specific forums, so I will allow it here, in it's own thread.

 

[PhotonBomb]

title should be changed, UC is confusing and sounds like UChicago

just say urgent care lol.

 

[evilbooyaa]

title should be changed, UC is confusing and sounds like UChicago

just say urgent care lol.

You're right. Title has been changed.

 

[SneakyBooger]

I see my post has been 1984'd to its own thread.

Possible sign of what is to come to rad onc now that supervision requirements have changed.

 

[thecarbonionangle]

I see my post has been 1984'd to its own thread.

Possible sign of what is to come to rad onc now that supervision requirements have changed.

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