Recent content by 4ophtho

I take ER and inpatient call for a large quaternary referral hospital in a metropolitan canter. My experience both at my own hospital and after doing considerable research when re-negotiating out own groups contract with our hospital is that ophthalmologists take call 24/7 for a period of time...

Ophthalmology wasn’t stressful until practicing came to a sudden halt with the pandemic. So much for having a “recession-proof” job.

Hospital is now accepting volunteers to do inpatient work and get paid to deal with anticipated increased demand for doctors. With your office closed, would you do inpatient hospitalist medicine to maintain an income?

Any suggestions from those in practice on how to keep afloat? We are having a rotating skeleton crew come in for daily so at least our staff can receive some income. Wiping down between patients, keeping waiting room chairs spaced, etc. However, we will be operating at a negative cash flow if...

This isn’t the forum. go to whitecoatinvestor.com

We have to learn to work with this virus and not shut down completely. In a few weeks these government mandated lockdowns will be untenable. The economic impact will be too great to bare.

The AAO guidance is great for employed ophthalmologists who can still expect a salary or some type of protection from their employer or university. But for those of us who run a practice and have staff to support and bills to pay and/or practice in areas that are not yet affected it’s useless...

This will never happen to ophthalmologists

Is your office still open? How are you handling payroll and taking care of your staff? If you’re still open, how are you protecting yourself and your staff? Do you wear a mask while seeing patients? I don’t understand why you would shut down your clinic for 2 weeks, this virus isn’t going...

When you really think about it, we HAVE been trained for oral boards and the skill set for performing well during oral boards is not all that different from surgery. Both require critical thinking on your feet and good judgement. Naming three unrelated parts of the eye shows poor critical...

Initial reaction - if you can’t keep your emotions together at oral boards, how are you going to keep your composure when a surgery goes south and you’re on your own in practice? Secondly, what makes you think you’re so special that sharing your experience in this public forum helps anyone...

Not really a helpful answer. I am aware of ophthalmologists in comparable situations being paid in excess of $1000/day for trauma call, which is on the low end of trauma call for a surgical specialist.

Go ahead and PM me. We actually are getting paid about 30% LESS than other ophthalmologists in our city who take call at less busy hospitals, hence the inquiry For the amount of work we do, this is NOT great reimbursement

ER - Level 1 trauma center Inpatient consults - Yes Trauma - Plenty Size of hospital - large quatenary referral center with extensive network of outlying hospitals and freestanding urgent care centers Other docs covering practice - 10-12 ophthalmologists, several aged out of taking call...

The post says it all. Any help would be needed. Need some hard facts to renegotiate hospital on call pay.