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Ok so if you’re an absolute prick and have this idea that nurses aren’t doctors like I do, is anesthesia just gonna be miserable? I hear stories of great teamwork and I also hear tales of crnas going rogue and being annoying as crap. What worries me is that the ones saying "the crna problem isn’t that bad" are the more submissive docs with a different standard. Much like the neurosurgeon explaining his work life balance actually isn’t all that bad when soothing student concerns because he gets to see his wife and kids for about an hour a day (wow a whole 7 hours a week with the family, amazing!), I fear when I’m told that crnas (and surgeons for that matter) aren’t that bad it’s simply because the "MDA’s" personality is different from mine - that they’re someone who is just ok taking the bull****.
I’ve heard that in the real world, if you clap back, there are repercussions. So that when you hear of docs who do stand up for what they believe in, they suffer in small ways that you need to decide if you’re ok with should you decide to as well.
Furthermore, supervision. I mean how are you supposed to know if you will like that crap? West coast isn’t an end all be all answer. Some people that can’t move out there will get boned. Do you have to be a partner in a group to even have power? I cannot imagine a worse scenario than having an employee who thinks they’re as good as you not even be YOUR employee. It seems like this is what is common though. Most anesthesia jobs are employee jobs and the crnas are employed by the hospital or by the partners. They do some malignant bs and you can’t even discipline them. Is this the type of crap that you guys mean when you say stay the hell away?
I can’t lie when I wrestle back and forth between a)the great money and awesome procedural aspects and b)the lack of being the guy in control. I could be happy in family medicine. But for me it would be is half the money and loss of almost all procedures worth the increase in autonomy?
what do you guys think?
I’ve heard that in the real world, if you clap back, there are repercussions. So that when you hear of docs who do stand up for what they believe in, they suffer in small ways that you need to decide if you’re ok with should you decide to as well.
Furthermore, supervision. I mean how are you supposed to know if you will like that crap? West coast isn’t an end all be all answer. Some people that can’t move out there will get boned. Do you have to be a partner in a group to even have power? I cannot imagine a worse scenario than having an employee who thinks they’re as good as you not even be YOUR employee. It seems like this is what is common though. Most anesthesia jobs are employee jobs and the crnas are employed by the hospital or by the partners. They do some malignant bs and you can’t even discipline them. Is this the type of crap that you guys mean when you say stay the hell away?
I can’t lie when I wrestle back and forth between a)the great money and awesome procedural aspects and b)the lack of being the guy in control. I could be happy in family medicine. But for me it would be is half the money and loss of almost all procedures worth the increase in autonomy?
what do you guys think?