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    GI intraining exam 2024

    Your PD would know usually a couple months later depending on the other programs still remaining to take it
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    How demanding are on-calls in gastroenterology?

    When In doubt, load the boat 🚢⛵. When it sinks we all go down together ⚓🔱. Nothing like community
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    ChatGPT is able to scrape MGMA data

    Dollars per wRVU. The salaries are low by about 8 to 10 percent-"ish" for Western region depending on the third party data used
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    Hand size and endoscopy?

    can find it on ebay if lucky, it makes a Big difference, olympus claims next generation scope will have lateral dial ergonomic to make the previous adapter obsolete but we will prob be stuck with 190s for quite some time
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    How demanding are on-calls in gastroenterology?

    highly dependent on the location. depending where you are and the facility and setting, you could reliably be up most nights, or asleep most nights, or anything in between. I'm in an "average" size community hospital in an mid size "average" metro, but majority of the nights overwhelmingly I...
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    MGMA 2023

    Thats pretty close for median $ per wRVU and median wrvu (9k) in the *south* region. Did You made 2k rvu bonus at the $59 per? Plus call pay? For employed this is close to median comp in south although If the clerical burden and ancillary support is poor, whole nother issue
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    anyone else curious to know if GI alliance will go down?

    No way they go down they are a juggernaut, issue is the second sale for recapitalization from the inevitable next private equity firm like kohlberg did for united digestive , and new grads need to get their stake in before the second bite ,
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    MGMA 2023

    Low balled by them, not sure how desperate they are, must not be at all or they don't know it yet, if you are truly in a rural Midwest, lots of $75 per rvu in true rural Midwest. national median last year was slightly above 550 for about 8400rvu,75th percentile rvu between 10 to 11k rvu for...
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    Job issue

    Hmmm 🤔 this is a peculiar position for sure, with that kind of setup I'm shocked not more of the ercp hobbyists would just completely relinquish the practice all together with a pro like you around, if anything in that setup usually expect to be tough for the opposite reason with one advanced...
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    Edible glitter?

    It would be funny, unless If the prep is suboptimal, just don't buy yourself a sooner repeat exam because of it. Would go with sharpie message written on the buttocks or note tucked in instead
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    Cost of CO2 vs. O2 at ASC

    Lee JH, Kedia P, Stavropoulos SN, Carr-Locke D. AGA Clinical Practice Update on Endoscopic Management of Perforations in Gastrointestinal Tract: Expert Review. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Nov;19(11):2252-2261.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.06.045. Epub 2021 Jul 2. PMID: 34224876. BPA#3
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    Cost of CO2 vs. O2 at ASC

    Olympus insert is about $7-8k each per unit, and it's society guideline to use for patient safety and comfort, a pretty small ask for the standard of care, if getting push back on something this simple and economic, can't imagine trying to negotiate something truly high impact
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    Whats the income ceiling for GI and what does it take to earn that? What does your week look like?

    They say the only truth these days is found in jest, and there is more truth in this than most realize. Employed physicians have an income ceiling. those in private practice or profit sharing ventures are constrained by physical limitations and personal ethics, or in some cases as satirized...
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