After residency hours

[spaz]

Ok, I'm reading the specialty information threads and most people are saying 60 hour weeks for ortho docs???????? This is hubby's schedule:


He has 8 call days a month which generally means one day during the week and then one weekend. However, if we take vacation or go on a mission trip then it will obviously get condensed so 8 call days in 2 weeks or 3 weeks depending on what time he takes off.

He gets up at 4:30 am and leaves no later than 6,sometime 5 and gets home at 7 on a good day. Many days it may not be until 9. When he is on call, it is busy. So he will probably be gone all night at least one night every week. He came home at midnight to sleep and left at6am may not see him until Monday (has the day off after a all weekend) Weekends and evenings are spent doing paperwork , checking coding, dictating or calling in surgeries or other thing.

I want to know where these 60 hour weeks are. he weekends he has call he works 100 hours or more. I would guess 70 or 80 hour weeks for a regular week. We don't have him do cliic post call, but he is often operating. He doesn't overschedule his surgeries but he will get bumped for emergencies and so his day will last later than scheduled.

At nearly 50 he just hates call...... Where are these 60 hour weeks????? My hubby takes more time off than any of his partners, but his own piece of mind is worth more than any extra money.

Excuse typos my keyboard isn't working right

[Vanquisher]

Where and who said 60 hour ortho workweeks? Couldn't have been me, could it? Maybe a few years ago that might have been true. DH wasn't fully busy. I'm pretty much the only ortho attending here that I know of. 80-100 hours a week is closer to reality. Plus, he's perpetually behind on charts and dictations.

[rainbabies]

Not ortho but...100 hour weeks here in one location and 60-70 hours in the other location.

[SuzySunshine]

After residency hours

Not Ortho but not that low here either. 80 is a good week, call weeks are easily 100.

ETA: 70 was reasonable when his group was fully staffed and we expect it to go back to that by August, hopefully.

[Deebs]

DH's uncle is a 70 year old ortho, just wrapping up his practice this year. Even in the "good old days" of medicine, he worked far more than 60 hours a week. He also pulled in a million dollars a year, so that's definitely changed, but his hours didn't fall below 60 hours until he stopped operating a few years ago.


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[mommax3]

Not ortho either (OB/Gyn), but 70-80 hours a week is typical, although there have certainly been weeks when he has worked more.

[spaz]

Ok, glad to know I'm not nuts. It was on the thread with information about different specialities. 3 different ortho posts said that after residency you could expect 60 hour weeks!!!!!

[Meenah]

Minimum of 70 to 80 hours per week here!

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Looking back on those posts, one person was from Canada, and one for sure was still in residency at the time. I know that the private practice here has 4 day work weeks, so 60 hours seems about right for that type of set-up. Like Vanquisher said in her OP, it can vary wildly depending on lots of stuff


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