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[slowthai]

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Based on a thread in the anesthesiology forum.

 

[ridethecliche]

Yes

 

[TexasPhysician]

Is this within certain parameters?

Can I be the personal psychiatrist/therapist to Britney Spears traveling the world, seeing pop concerts, and attempting to maintain proper knife safety? I would also accept similar jobs for NFL and MLB athletes.

 

[slowthai]

Is this within certain parameters?

Can I be the personal psychiatrist/therapist to Britney Spears traveling the world, seeing pop concerts, and attempting to maintain proper knife safety? I would also accept similar jobs for NFL and MLB athletes.

It can be whatever you want

 

[Cath Up]

That’s a good question. I look forward to hearing more responses.

30-34 hours per week for 450k
6 weeks vacation
In-person outpatient
Motivated patients
Mix of MDD, bipolar, substance use disorders, insomnia, a few dementia behavioral cases. Would probably like a few schizophrenia patients.
Maybe some ED psychiatry shifts as part of the 30-34hrs. Id take some call in the evening too.

Sports teams would be fun but I imagine it’s mostly therapy they need, and financial counseling, so maybe not much variation. But I don’t know.

 

[ObsequiousAplomb]

My current private practice, if I could get the hours up to 16 per week (currently floating between 8-12). I take 9 weeks vacation a year. The pay is commensurate with the level of work.

Now if only I could convince my wife to do the same thing...

 

[nexus73]

That’s a good question. I look forward to hearing more responses.

30-34 hours per week for 450k
6 weeks vacation
In-person outpatient
Motivated patients
Mix of MDD, bipolar, substance use disorders, insomnia, a few dementia behavioral cases. Would probably like a few schizophrenia patients.
Maybe some ED psychiatry shifts as part of the 30-34hrs. Id take some call in the evening too.

Sports teams would be fun but I imagine it’s mostly therapy they need, and financial counseling, so maybe not much variation. But I don’t know.

Sounds like a classic outpatient job as part of a hospital clinic, so part of the coverage group for ED shifts, just with higher pay than most places will offer.

 

[Celexa]

From a content perspective, I love my job as academic faculty. I love teaching and I get to build subspecialty expertise partnering with other specialties in a way that's basically only possible in the ivory tower. I do a mix of inpt consults and outpatient and have a great group of colleagues to discuss particularly difficult or interesting cases with.

But....we are underpaid and not given enough admin time for the non clincial responsibilities that are nonetheless mission-critical at a teaching instition, so that's what I would change. Better pay, 30-40% clincial time, and the rest paid non clincial time for the educational and administrative work. If those things were true, it'd be as good a job for me as is compatible with a roughly realistic version of the world.

 

[Celexa]

Sports teams would be fun but I imagine it’s mostly therapy they need, and financial counseling, so maybe not much variation. But I don’t know.

I worked with someone who worked with the players of a major sports franchise. They said a significant portion of the players are emotionally immature (as you would expect from people who have been funneled into programs which require intense time commitment but not exactly diverse social exposures) plus of course most players are young and average career length is short, so.... The appeal of the job depends on how much you like treating teenagers who have more money than sense. Which is something that could be very appealing to certain psychiatrists! But possibly is not what immediately leaps to mind when one thinks about treating professional athletes.