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[jetproppilot]

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Nice to be back!
A little housekeeping:
1)Sevo...you da man! Hope you're keepin it real. Tell Noyac I said hello.
2)RT2MD.... Thanks!
3)Judd: anesthesiology is still a great career. Carry on.
4) TLPRRT: I came from a flying family. Got all my ratings, ended up in anesthesia after med school, and can guarantee you I'm better off where I'm at. Making it to the majors today in the airline industry is different than when my dad did it back in the day.
5) Razorback: you're well informed. New Orleans is a tight market and the groups you mentioned are pretty much it....except for...

I've formed my own group! Jet now exists in a boutique hospital doing mostly spine, orthopedics, and bariatrics, with some ENT, plastics, general surg, and MACs for IR.

Thanks for the many, many messages. Sorry I couldn't personally respond to you all.

Love,

Jet

 

[racerx]

Nice to be back!

I've formed my own group! Jet now exists in a boutique hospital doing mostly spine, orthopedics, and bariatrics, with some ENT, plastics, general surg, and MACs for IR.

👍👍
Excellent and congrats! I guess that explains where the eff you've been!

 

[sevoflurane]

....except for...

I've formed my own group! Jet now exists in a boutique hospital doing mostly spine, orthopedics, and bariatrics, with some ENT, plastics, general surg, and MACs for IR.

Jet

Great to see you back on here and CONGRATS!!! That is big boy talk right there!

 

[Bertelman]

Making it to the majors today in the airline industry is different than when my dad did it back in the day.

True that.

Congrats on the new group. Maybe in your spare time you can get the N.O. police up to speed. Is it as bad there as they make it out to be in the newspapers?

 

[scudrunner]

Jet, glad to see you're back from your sabbatical. I think we've all missed your contribution here.

I remember you talking about putting your prose to good use outside these forums, did anything ever develop from that?

Congrats on your new group too, that's got to be exciting!

P.S. You still fly much?

 

[Gimlet]

Strong work, Jet! I've enjoyed following the posts about your new business venture on Facebook. Hopefully sometime you'll be able to write a little on here about the process you went through with setting up the new group...I'm sure it would be very informative!

 

[Narcotized]

Maybe in your spare time you can get the N.O. police up to speed.

Oh boy, now what did they do?? 🙄

 

[kazuma]

Welcome back Jet! I enjoyed reading your posts and was sad to see you leave, it's good to have you back. Congrats on the new group, it sounds like a dream gig. 👍

 

[countingdays]

Nice to be back!
A little housekeeping:
1)Sevo...you da man! Hope you're keepin it real. Tell Noyac I said hello.
2)RT2MD.... Thanks!
3)Judd: anesthesiology is still a great career. Carry on.
4) TLPRRT: I came from a flying family. Got all my ratings, ended up in anesthesia after med school, and can guarantee you I'm better off where I'm at. Making it to the majors today in the airline industry is different than when my dad did it back in the day.
5) Razorback: you're well informed. New Orleans is a tight market and the groups you mentioned are pretty much it....except for...

I've formed my own group! Jet now exists in a boutique hospital doing mostly spine, orthopedics, and bariatrics, with some ENT, plastics, general surg, and MACs for IR.

Thanks for the many, many messages. Sorry I couldn't personally respond to you all.

Love,

Jet

Are you part of Parish or totally independent?

 

[jetproppilot]

Are you part of Parish or totally independent?

Totally independent.
My group is Delta South Anesthesia and Pain Consultants.

 

[doctor712]

I remember you talking about putting your prose to good use outside these forums, did anything ever develop from that?

What say you about that Jet? 😎😎

 

[periopdoc]

Hope your kid made it safely back home. Don't be a stranger.

- pod

 

[countingdays]

Totally independent.
My group is Delta South Anesthesia and Pain Consultants.

Awesome.
No huge problems with non-competes?

 

[Monty Python]

Oh boy, now what did they do?? 🙄

HEY JET ... CONGRATULATIONS !! You might have already heard, but a certain group on another part of the state lost the contract at a certain ambulatory surgery center. Ouch.

About the NOPD:

1. I used to wear the badge in the late 1980s. Nothing's changed.

2. The main problem is the off-duty paid details system (police officers working as off-duty security guards in NOPD uniform at private events, businesses, etc.). Many times the officers who control the details through sharp business acumen are lower-ranking officers. Their NOPD platoon commander might be dependent on them for their own off-duty paid details. Thus you have the on-duty boss working for his own subordinate in off-duty roles. And given what NOPD pays, most officers need to work off-duty details to have a halfway decent standard of living, especially if you have kids.

3. Many businesses have complained that they're being shaken down by the officers who control the off-duty details. They lodged complaints about having to pay such-and-such hourly rates for detail officers, or they've been told that "they'll never see an NOPD patrol car responding to an emergency call for service at their business, ever."

4. Here's the US Justice Department's investigative report on NOPD, released just last week: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/justice-department-report-new-orleans-police_n_837866.html

 

[DrDre']

Hey man,
Glad to see you here.
Just talking about you with Noyac- wish we could have made you move to our area to work and play.

Learned a lot from you over the years and hope to continue to learn from you as a new staffer.

Hope u r enjoying your new gig and your kid is well.

Gonna be a Dre' day, goin to the swap meet...

 

[cfdavid]

What's up JET!!!

JPP, you were not an insignificant factor in helping form my views towards this profession. Glad to hear all is going well. I wouldn't have thought otherwise for a minute.

cf

 

[RT2MD]

Jet's BACK!!! Glad to see you back, as I said before, I've always enjoyed your posts. I'm glad that I get to read some new ones!

Congrats on the new group, sounds like the dream! 👍

Thanks for coming back, even if it is for a little bit.

Regards,
RT2MD

 

[jetproppilot]

Awesome.
No huge problems with non-competes?

No problems at all largely due to my choice at previous gig to avoid political confrontation with the higher-ups....just came to work, worked hard, never complained, formed an allegiance with the surgeons, always strived to be upbeat and put my best foot forward. I left in very good graces. The higher ups actually wished me good luck and good fortune, and to call if there was anything they could do to help.
I chose not to burn bridges and it paid off with a life changing opportunity.👍

 

[Narcotized]

About the NOPD:

1. I used to wear the badge in the late 1980s. Nothing's changed.

2. The main problem is the off-duty paid details system (police officers working as off-duty security guards in NOPD uniform at private events, businesses, etc.). Many times the officers who control the details through sharp business acumen are lower-ranking officers. Their NOPD platoon commander might be dependent on them for their own off-duty paid details. Thus you have the on-duty boss working for his own subordinate in off-duty roles. And given what NOPD pays, most officers need to work off-duty details to have a halfway decent standard of living, especially if you have kids.

3. Many businesses have complained that they're being shaken down by the officers who control the off-duty details. They lodged complaints about having to pay such-and-such hourly rates for detail officers, or they've been told that "they'll never see an NOPD patrol car responding to an emergency call for service at their business, ever."

4. Here's the US Justice Department's investigative report on NOPD, released just last week: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/justice-department-report-new-orleans-police_n_837866.html

Had a work relationship with the NOPD even before then. The stories I could tell. Not defending their bad actions at all, but if you had even the slightest relationship with the city of New Orleans you knew about the NOPD and you knew not to F with them. Of the good number of azz whoopings I saw or saw the results of, for the most part they could have been avoided; typically someone committing a crime (again not defending that a guy committing a minor crime deserves to get pulvarized), or someone that just wouldn't shut up and not mouth off (again not saying a loudmouth deserves his butt kicked). Then of course are the things you read about that are just completely defenseless; hits on witnesses, cops involved in arm robbery and murder; just crazy insane stuff.

Fortunately, as a medical professional there has been a nice professional courtesy thing going on, and while some actions might possibly not have been in the ACLU code book of police etiquette, I'm not going to deny I felt better knowing if a criminal acted up or created a disturbance in the work space he was going to be put down rather quickly.

As for the white/black issue mentioned a few times in the article, I personally saw the physical treatment as very very equal opportunity. I saw a white friend of mine have his face smushed on a police car like a hood ornament for a minor drunken stupid act, and numerous other occasions where significant serious azz whoopings showed no tendency to be racially based and spread well across all demographics for a wide range of infractions (my unstudied limited observations of course).

These national studies almost seem like an Obama job creation project. Every few years it seems, how can we put some of those DOJ guys to work? Well, send them back to New Orleans to find the same things every other study and investigation has found. I would say compared to 30 years ago it has progressed forward a small amount, if only because some of the stuff was just so over the top and egregious, but unknown on a national level, that they had to make at least a slight effort to calm or hide their actions when significant national attention began, I think somewhere around late 80's or so.

 

[Narcotized]

Totally independent.
My group is Delta South Anesthesia and Pain Consultants.

Hmmm, delta sounds greek; kinda like omega. Yes? No?

 

[scudrunner]

Hmmm, delta sounds greek; kinda like omega. Yes? No?

Delta is greek, but my first thought was that it was probably in reference to the Mississippi River Delta...?

 

[Bertelman]

These national studies almost seem like an Obama job creation project. Every few years it seems, how can we put some of those DOJ guys to work? Well, send them back to New Orleans to find the same things every other study and investigation has found. I would say compared to 30 years ago it has progressed forward a small amount, if only because some of the stuff was just so over the top and egregious, but unknown on a national level, that they had to make at least a slight effort to calm or hide their actions when significant national attention began, I think somewhere around late 80's or so.

When things like Katrina happen, you get a level of national attention that is hard to ignore. I know it's always fun to blame stuff on Obama, but seriously, even you don't argue that the NOPD is not to be f'ed with.

 

[Narcotized]

When things like Katrina happen, you get a level of national attention that is hard to ignore. I know it's always fun to blame stuff on Obama, but seriously, even you don't argue that the NOPD is not to be f'ed with.

I wasn't picking at Obama as much as I was laughing at these investigations being done continually finding the same things over and over again.

 

[jetproppilot]

Delta is greek, but my first thought was that it was probably in reference to the Mississippi River Delta...?

Bingo, Dude.

 

[Narcotized]

<<<New Orleans 1994 &#8212; ten officers, from what is ranked as the most brutal police department in the country, are indicted for dealing drugs and guns. One officer is charged with arranging the murder of a woman who filed brutality charges against him. The next year, officer Antoinette Frank is found guilty of robbing a restaurant and murdering three people in the process, one of whom is her own off-duty partner.>>>

Like I said, the reports keep coming out over the years, and not a tremendous amount of progress seems to result. You read the above and think they must be talking about some third world corrupt country in total chaos.

The above story is truly stranger than fiction. Not only did she kill the 3 people, but she then had the audacity to respond to the 911 call for the murders, and was promptly identified by witnesses.

 

[jetproppilot]

<<<New Orleans 1994 — ten officers, from what is ranked as the most brutal police department in the country, are indicted for dealing drugs and guns. One officer is charged with arranging the murder of a woman who filed brutality charges against him. The next year, officer Antoinette Frank is found guilty of robbing a restaurant and murdering three people in the process, one of whom is her own off-duty partner.>>>

Like I said, there reports keep coming out over the years, and not a tremendous amount of progress seems to result. You read the above and think they must be talking about some third world corrupt country in total chaos.

Thats why I live in Old Metairie.😀

 

[jetproppilot]

What say you about that Jet? 😎😎

 

[Narcotized]

Similar findings in an 09 study

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EMA_j_V44&feature=fvwrel

And a Katrina unarmed murder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gYV6bwNN6E&feature=related

Combine all the drunk fools and the out of control crime in NO (I wouldn't want their job), and an underpaid corrupt force; man that's a bad recipe. I guess another study in 2-3 years will tell us more of the same.

 

[Bertelman]

<<<New Orleans 1994 — ten officers, from what is ranked as the most brutal police department in the country, are indicted for dealing drugs and guns. One officer is charged with arranging the murder of a woman who filed brutality charges against him. The next year, officer Antoinette Frank is found guilty of robbing a restaurant and murdering three people in the process, one of whom is her own off-duty partner.>>>

Like I said, the reports keep coming out over the years, and not a tremendous amount of progress seems to result. You read the above and think they must be talking about some third world corrupt country in total chaos.

The above story is truly stranger than fiction. Not only did she kill the 3 people, but she then had the audacity to respond to the 911 call for the murders, and was promptly identified by witnesses.

Just.

WOW.