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I would choose the former in a heartbeat. You need an office, an EKG- and maybe an echo machine.Everything is relative and must be compared to other options. Which option would put you in higher demand in PP resulting in greater compensation: a general cardiologist or an anesthesiologist with a double fellowship in Peds and Cardiac? Both options require 6 years of training after med school.
Wow. Can you please elaborate why?I would choose the former in a heartbeat. You need an office, an EKG- and maybe an echo machine.
One can always become independent. If one is not obsessed with making big money, and minimizes office staff and is selective about insurance plans. Not everybody, but the really good ones. And even when one is an employee, the employer values a cardiologist more.Wow. Can you please elaborate why?
The bottom of the heap has been going into internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology etc. for quite some time... Those fields aren't ending.
Everything is relative and must be compared to other options. Which option would put you in higher demand in PP resulting in greater compensation: a general cardiologist or an anesthesiologist with a double fellowship in Peds and Cardiac? Both options require 6 years of training after med school.
One problem that is unique to anesthesia is that when surgeons take Medicare for a procedure they usually get more than 2/3 of private insurance rates. A fair discount. Unfortunately anesthesia services are unfairly discounted to about 1/3 of private rates. The anesthesia society has been lobbying to fix this unfair penalty forever, but they have had very limited success as once it was done, they have to take the money from somewhere else to fix the problem. They acknowledge it, but can't seem to (want to) fix it.
If you have a good payer mix you can do fine at that rate, but a high percentage of government payers, which would obviously happen with a single payer system, will be very disruptive to the field. They may have to do something about it at that point. Or just continue to ignore it and effectively lose all research and turn the field over to FMGs and CRNAs.
I've read it, and I believe it.just curious, but have you read this from Ildestriero-
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i dunno about those with a pulse (U.S. Aamc med schools) are guaranteed spots these days anymore.
It used to be almost any aamc (those 120 plus med schools in USA) basically got a residency spot.
Because residency spots are limited because of Medicare funding. And U.S. Schools have increased slots for medical students (rom 1975-2000 ish). The only "new" aamc med school that opened was University of South Florida. (Opened in 1976 I believe)
But I believe in the past 15 years we've had 7-10 new aamc med schools open. This plus DO schools and IMG and limited residency slots means the bottom of heap isn't guaranteed a slot anymore
This is coming straight from the charting outcomes 2014 information. 70% of US seniors with Step 1s between 191-200 and 89% of seniors between 201-210 matched. My point was to say that those other specialties have the "bottom of the barrel" applicants while acting like anesthesia doesn't get a decent amount of those same applicants isn't exactly true. Anesthesia, just like the other large specialties, has great applicants and not so great applicants, most of whom get spots somewhere.
Whatever you end up choosing, spread your bets: don't marry someone from the same specialty.
I don't think that's the way normal people choose a wife.
That came out just wrong.I don't think that's the way normal people choose a wife.
Great response. I couldn't imagine choosing my spouse or anyone's spouse based on his/her specialty.
I've heard quite a few stories like this. US courts are still stuck in the 1920's when it comes to child custody/support issues. Ive got a friend that pays $3500/month child support for one child even though the child lives with him 55% of the time.Well my best buddy just went through a $300k divorce/child custody battle with his orthopedic (now) ex wife.
He was wishy washy on choosing his high school sweetheart (community college) and orthopedic resident at time.
In the end choosing orthopedic wife was a nightmare. Ended up costing him a ton and he's the one paying child support even though she's the one making 200k more a year to the tune of $4000/month cause she has custody of kids 60% of the time.
Just love the American family courts.
U figure choosing orthopedic doc as spouse would be cheaper than regular non medical homemaker.
Women cost money regardless.
Then the ortho doc should also be paying the non ortho husband.I have to step in here and point out that child support while it is given to the former spouse (in this case, an orthopedic surgeon who is making $200k more than her ex), the money is for the child. The courts aren't "behind the times" on this because this isn't maintenance being paid to the other spouse to support a lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. This is money the child is entitled to for said lifestyle. If there was no child, my guess is that both parties would go their separate way and all would be right with the world (depending on the state in which they live, the circumstances that made the divorce happen, and just how vindictive the parties involved wanted to be) but they procreated. Do that, and sometimes you bring "unpleasant" burdens upon yourself (he said, tongue firmly planted in cheek). And one of those is ensuring that your child lives a life similar to what they'd be living if you (not you specifically, but you generally) and your partner had not split. The easiest way to do that is to count the bennies and divvied them up. /shrug
Not if the child is living with her, or however their custody arrangement is worked out. The person who isn't the primary caregiver to the child is the one that has to pay. So if the kid is with the ortho doc, then non-ortho doc has to provide support to child via child support payments to ortho doc. And we're back in the 2010s.Then the ortho doc should also be paying the non ortho husband.
If the ortho doc made 200k more, she's a larger part of that lifestyle... So she should be contributing more to this "child pool" than the non ortho husband. And since she's not...that math doesn't work.
1920s it is!
Lol I don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on this oneNot if the child is living with her, or however their custody arrangement is worked out. The person who isn't the primary caregiver to the child is the one that has to pay. So if the kid is with the ortho doc, then non-ortho doc has to provide support to child via child support payments to ortho doc. And we're back in the 2010s.
Not if the child is living with her, or however their custody arrangement is worked out. The person who isn't the primary caregiver to the child is the one that has to pay. So if the kid is with the ortho doc, then non-ortho doc has to provide support to child via child support payments to ortho doc. And we're back in the 2010s.
Then the ortho doc should also be paying the non ortho husband.
If the ortho doc made 200k more, she's a larger part of that lifestyle... So she should be contributing more to this "child pool" than the non ortho husband. And since she's not...that math doesn't work.
1920s it is!
I'm not arguing what the courts say. I'm arguing that the way the courts work is unfair. If we just blindly accepted courts as fair, women and blacks wouldn't be voting.Just not the way it work.
Spousal support and child support are determined differently.
And if both incomes are greater than $150k a year My buddy attorney says the "poorer" spouse isn't entitled to alimony or spousal support.
You even see if in the mega billionaire divorce of two hedge fund people. The "poorer" spouse got denied spousal support. So she's going the child support method and trying to demand $400k a month in child support.
Yes. This is the way it was explained to my buddy. The primary caregiver gets the money for child support on a sliding scale (depending on state laws) from the non custody parent.
Lucky for my buddy the child custody was in Maryland courts even those spouse moved to New York. In New York courts it would have cost him $5000 instead of $4000. (Morale of story, don't have child custody fight in New York!)
It was just a nasty custody battle (and still fighting). Very vindictive. Even when she's working and my buddy has 3 day weekend like Memorial Day. She won't even give up the kids to Monday afternoon at 4pm. Because that's what the courts say.
She'd rather have the kids with the nanny than with the father.
I have to step in here and point out that child support while it is given to the former spouse (in this case, an orthopedic surgeon who is making $200k more than her ex), the money is for the child. The courts aren't "behind the times" on this because this isn't maintenance being paid to the other spouse to support a lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. This is money the child is entitled to for said lifestyle. If there was no child, my guess is that both parties would go their separate way and all would be right with the world (depending on the state in which they live, the circumstances that made the divorce happen, and just how vindictive the parties involved wanted to be) but they procreated. Do that, and sometimes you bring "unpleasant" burdens upon yourself (he said, tongue firmly planted in cheek). And one of those is ensuring that your child lives a life similar to what they'd be living if you (not you specifically, but you generally) and your partner had not split. The easiest way to do that is to count the bennies and divvied them up. /shrug
What I meant by saying the legal system is "behind the times" in matters of child support is that these laws were written taking in account a time when women did not commonly work and men were the only bread winners in the family. Obviously, this is hardly the case now. But still this is the reason for such excessive amounts of child support. Also, yes child support is supposed to entirely go for the child's expenses but it rarely works out that way. This is because the courts do not require any sort of documentation of how the mother spends the money. I have seen the mother buying new cars and going on vacations when the child is with the father. Now, no way do I mean that the father should have a reduced financial responsibility but I have also seen the father offer to pay for ALL child expenses directly instead of giving the money to the mother. This was also not allowed because all the money is required to go through the mother. I dont know about you, but it doesn't seem very fair to me.
This may be the most tangential thread ever.
Just waiting for it to come full circle to Obama, guns, and eventually ibanking.
On topic... the psych guys are currently stating that anesthesiologists routinely pull in over a million per year on the "why psych is not competitive" thread... One dude was complaining about exorbitant epidural fees during his wife's pregnancy.
If you are paying your ex wife's mortgage so that your kid can grow up in a house he's accustomed to, you should be getting equity in the house to sell when he's 18. She should make no money off the exchange even indirect money through home equity. It's child support so she should have nothing to show for it when the child is an adult.
Moral of the story. A. Don't get married or have kids. B. If you violate rule A, make sure she's a keeper.
Maybe @2win will come and discuss the merits of day trading and buying on margin.Just waiting for it to come full circle to Obama, guns, and eventually ibanking.
true enoughOr make sure you're a keeper.
Can't tell you how frequently I interact with physicians and think "boy, I feel sorry for this person's spouse."
This may be the most tangential thread ever.
The future doesn't look bright, I get it. But the rest of medicine is on the same boat. Cards has been hit really hard if I understand correctly. Echo and EKG reimburse peanuts compared to a decade ago. Just confused about what solid options are available to the medical student who doesn't want to take on the risk of operating on people.
I would pick something both relatively broad as well as something that is able to be done on a cash basis AND have people willing to pay cash for your services. I can't say I have the answer to that exactly, but you should be able to make a short list. There is a whole revolution just starting with direct primary care or what is also called 'concierge' medicine. It just might be a viable alternative and even cheaper than the extremely large co-pays that many middle class folks are struggling with right now. Of course 100% of primary care can be done by nurses (according to the nurses, just like in anesthesia) so there is that too. I would stay away from exclusively hospital based specialties for now.
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Looks like the psychiatric nurse practitioner works in a place that would be my version of a lonely, sparsely populated hell. I don't know any doctor who would move there to provide the needed services. So in my view she is doing a good thing. More power to her.
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Sounds like it was just another piece of well-planned, sensationalist propaganda:New NYT article bashing physicians: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/2...f-nursing-autonomy-debate.html?referrer=&_r=0
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Ethan Campbell Brooklyn, NY
It's funny that this article makes Ainsworth, Nebraska look like a town with no doctor and substandard medical care, with only a frightened nurse practitioner and a doctor who stops in once a month from another state.
Funny because my dad, Melvin Campbell, has worked as a doctor there for the past 37 years. He speaks highly of his NP, she's very capable -- and the only time she's on her own is when he's on vacation (that is, rarely). Yeah, the hospital has been trying to recruit a doctor since 2012 -- not because they don't have one, but because my dad can't work as the sole physician in the county forever.
In fact, he had a conversation with Ms. Tavernise when she was writing this article, which does shine light on the problem of rural communities with limited healthcare options. But come on. She wanted to make rural Nebraska look isolated, and doctors look like jerks, and the problem look scary for dramatic effect, and she had to ignore a few facts that didn't fit that storyline.