Dropping salaries

[PrincessFiona]

After offering the ER docs a 50% paycut, the hospital just dropped Hospitalist salaries by 15% effective now. They are also demanding that the hospitalists drastically reduce dictations because they no longer want to pay transcriptionists. If the docs can't get things much shorter they are facing up to 15% more in loss of pay. The only option is typing notes themselves.

Just beating the drum of positivity here.

It's going to get bad.

Kris


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[MrsC]

The new administration sounds awful. Wow.

[Ladybug]

Holy Sh!t!!!

[v-girl]

Ugh. That sucks big time.


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[ides]

There needs to be an exodus.


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[MrsK]

Holy crud! Just when you think medicine is out of fresh Hell, it whips up another batch.

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[MAPPLEBUM]

There needs to be an exodus.


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+1

[PrincessFiona]

There is an exodus. It's scary. People are saying FU.

I just don't want to be part of the exodus. 😞. I have my job, which I love.

This is just all such bullshit.

Alex was trying to decide if he wanted to study Medicine or Architecture. Thomas set him straight. Architecture it is.

Kris


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[MrsK]

You don't want to leave but it's worse to be the last man standing. Believe me.

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[Meenah]

It isn't much better here!

[MrsInTheMiddle]

That's terrible news. Employee morale is going to hit rock bottom.


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[rufflesanddots]

This sounds awful.

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[ladymoreta]

I'm so sorry. I hope things turn around before you guys have to be one of the ones to leave. I get it - DH's job isn't anywhere near that bad, but there's a good chance we'd be better off if we moved, but we also don't want to, especially me.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/bu...T.nav=top-news

You guys see this?

[MrsK]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/bu...T.nav=top-news

You guys see this?

This sounds like DrK. He sees a lot of geriatric patients and has on many occasions had dementia patients who are having strokes, breaking hips, having heart attacks, etc while on his ward. He has to diagnose these things and get them stabelized but can't bill for it. Also, planning for the patients' discharge and speaking with families eat up a lot of his time. In psych, he cannot treat a patient and then release them to homes that are unsafe for them, where they are abused, where they may abuse others, or into homelessness. But he doesn't get any brownie points for providing that level of care.