What it’s like to work at Kaiser

The fact that Kaiser can get away with hiring docs at 30% less salary and working more hours tells me one thing:

1) The so-called “doctor shortage” is an absolute myth. If there were really a doc shortage, no way in hell would KP be able to hire anybody to work those kinds of hours/wages.

Can sub-specialists weigh in on this?

I can understand how the bustle of the ER would make a 40 hr work week more exhausting than the private practice norm (esp. with the norm weighing in at 30 hrs), but how about those specialists like vascular surgeons or neurologists?

anon 5:09 clearly isn’t a physician, otherwise he would understand a couple of things:

1)residency doesn’tallow exposure for many residents to what is available in the real world, and with a family and loans, etc,, the offer Kaiser makes may sound good.

2) Living in a certain area may make it more difficult to get the job you want right away. And as the post says, once you’re in, you’re drummed into submission. It isn’t just Kaiser. In any large, corporate run hospital, this is the mind-numbing game they play with unsaavy physicinas.

The “doctor shortage” is not “exposed” as a myht by your error in linking this articlewith free market type arguments. But keep pretending its not a problem. Then when you have to wait three months for an appointment, you can smile knowing its “just a myth”