EastWest Gal
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Although I have stopped working at one place in our group, I am working with the same group at a different hospital for three months. I think I couldn't have timed it better.
Two of 8 remaining physicians announced they are leaving the practice. Two others are actively looking. I'm glad I could call it retirement and not leaving the practice, or quitting. The docs are really good people, but the larger group we work for has been unsupportive for years. Too much work for too few people, chronically working extra days or helping each other out, etc. We were told we could hire additional staff, then when we started interviewing the corporate people threatened to fire the local people for not getting CEO approval for hiring. We were told that if we wanted more staff that it was a "lifestyle issue" and that working 60-80 hrs per week was the norm in medical practice. That's just nuts.
I am watching a medical group disintegrate because the hospital and the megagroup see medicine as a business only and the physicians as an expense item. Does not megagroup and megahospital system realize that without us docs, they don't have a job at all?
Given all the other threads about how end of life care seems to be about who can make the most money from Medicare and Medicaid, and not caring for people at all, this should come as no surprise. I just hope this isn't happening in my doc's practice too.
My retirement party is this weekend, but the mood might be that of a funeral.
Two of 8 remaining physicians announced they are leaving the practice. Two others are actively looking. I'm glad I could call it retirement and not leaving the practice, or quitting. The docs are really good people, but the larger group we work for has been unsupportive for years. Too much work for too few people, chronically working extra days or helping each other out, etc. We were told we could hire additional staff, then when we started interviewing the corporate people threatened to fire the local people for not getting CEO approval for hiring. We were told that if we wanted more staff that it was a "lifestyle issue" and that working 60-80 hrs per week was the norm in medical practice. That's just nuts.
I am watching a medical group disintegrate because the hospital and the megagroup see medicine as a business only and the physicians as an expense item. Does not megagroup and megahospital system realize that without us docs, they don't have a job at all?
Given all the other threads about how end of life care seems to be about who can make the most money from Medicare and Medicaid, and not caring for people at all, this should come as no surprise. I just hope this isn't happening in my doc's practice too.
My retirement party is this weekend, but the mood might be that of a funeral.