May soon be the only game in town, according to Dr. Wes:
It is clear that many doctors will increasingly become reliant on large healthcare systems to weather the economic impact of the threatened 10.1% Medicare physician pay cut in July, the ongoing unrealistic bureaucratic requirements for pay for performance measure documentation, the ongoing lack of tort reform, and increased work requirements by staff physicians to offset the upcoming resident work hour reductions from 80 to 56 hours per week.
On a separate note, I wasn’t aware that work hour restrictions were going to be so drastically cut. I’d be interested to see how hospitals are going deal with that.
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Resident hours are dropping to 56 per week? When does that start?
http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/05/22/56-hour-work-week-is-on-the-horizon/
I guess it’s the rumor. New grads are already porcelain dolls. They will soon receive a pair of knitted white (sterile) gloves and a 36hr/8wk vac gubmint job at graduation. They will claim to have the same gusto and “right stuff” of their Giant predecessors. They will shriek if you snort at this, and make ample use of the EOC hotline card in their Man-Bags.
My florist has more machismo and a better work ethic.
When fishing, you mostly get what you troll for…
56 hours a week? I might do another one just for the fun of it. Even an old man can handle that.
The basic economics don’t change much in big groups. The economic base is still the same–the fees–and if that goes down, ultimately total compensation will go down.
What changes is that some of the animals being more equal than others get to live in the farm house. For those who have never read animal farm, that means that the docs who win the poltical games will not share in the financial pain with the rest who will be subsidizing the earnings of the few. This isn’t prophecy, it is history.
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