Comments on: Hospital employment http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76537 Anonymous Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76537 A contract is only as good as the man who signs it . . but he'll be gone in 6 months so forget that too. A contract is only as good as the man who signs it . . but he’ll be gone in 6 months so forget that too.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76525 Anonymous Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76525 I think it all depends on the the contract when it comes to a rural "community" facility. If you are willing to move you hold all of the cards.. Don't have strong ties, don't buy anything you can't get rid of like a 800,000 dollar house in a town of 6,000 and have a contract that allows you to leave easily. Only those things will ensure that situations are to your satisfaction. I think it all depends on the the contract when it comes to a rural “community” facility. If you are willing to move you hold all of the cards.. Don’t have strong ties, don’t buy anything you can’t get rid of like a 800,000 dollar house in a town of 6,000 and have a contract that allows you to leave easily. Only those things will ensure that situations are to your satisfaction.

]]> By: DR. MARY JOHNSONhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76523 DR. MARY JOHNSON Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76523 "Back in style?". God help us.<br/><br/>Excuse me, those of us who got royally screwed by "joining up" with a hospital (especially a rural, "community" one) can shoot many holes through that argument. Contracts didn't mean a %$#^& thing when push came to shove. In my case the hospital just breached them, and kept right on moving. And little things like the law didn't stop them.<br/><br/>Questions? Visit my blog and read "the long version" in the side links. “Back in style?”. God help us.

Excuse me, those of us who got royally screwed by “joining up” with a hospital (especially a rural, “community” one) can shoot many holes through that argument. Contracts didn’t mean a %$#^& thing when push came to shove. In my case the hospital just breached them, and kept right on moving. And little things like the law didn’t stop them.

Questions? Visit my blog and read “the long version” in the side links.

]]> By: Mikehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76504 Mike Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76504 I didnt have a contract, so I didn't have any problems when I left, which is the way I prefer it. But since everyone in the department was required to go by the dept head, I doubt I was in a position to negotiate there. I didnt have a contract, so I didn’t have any problems when I left, which is the way I prefer it. But since everyone in the department was required to go by the dept head, I doubt I was in a position to negotiate there.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76491 Anonymous Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76491 Sounds like you should have asked for a few more things in your employment contract. I get paid on an hourly basis to attend all meetings like those. Everyone has a number in their head that will make them happy no matter what calls come along. I love being employed and wouldn't have it any other way. I make much more than I did and work less. Sounds like you should have asked for a few more things in your employment contract. I get paid on an hourly basis to attend all meetings like those. Everyone has a number in their head that will make them happy no matter what calls come along. I love being employed and wouldn’t have it any other way. I make much more than I did and work less.

]]> By: Mikehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76475 Mike Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/hospital-employment.html#comment-76475 If these doctors think they are escaping "bureaucratic pressures" by joining a hospital, they are delusional. I work for a hosptial and every week I have to attend a meeting about QI, length of stay, diachrage planning, ER wait times, etc. And I'm not even on ANY OF THE COMMITEES!! Then there are the oidous multidisciplinary rounds with the "team". Constant calls to "dishcrage so and so, theyve been here too long", an inability to figure out how much you're billing because of a billing system so multilayered and bloated, THEY dont even know. <br/><br/>Its a whole new set of nightmares. If these doctors think they are escaping “bureaucratic pressures” by joining a hospital, they are delusional. I work for a hosptial and every week I have to attend a meeting about QI, length of stay, diachrage planning, ER wait times, etc. And I’m not even on ANY OF THE COMMITEES!! Then there are the oidous multidisciplinary rounds with the “team”. Constant calls to “dishcrage so and so, theyve been here too long”, an inability to figure out how much you’re billing because of a billing system so multilayered and bloated, THEY dont even know.

Its a whole new set of nightmares.

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