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Most I've seen is $350/hour and $400 OT if you're willing to drive 30-45 min. outside of the city.

Not currently hiring but I believe other Kaisers in the area are.

One of the SoCal Kaisers. We take an average of 3-4 overnight (12-hour) calls with an occasional 24-hour on the weekend. It may be more or less call depending on the month, but we do get rest most of the time, except maybe on OB.

I work with GassmanMD and can vouch for all his numbers. To clarify, we get paid vacation, so it's not $257/hour but does come close to that when you're at the overnight 1.5x rate depending on how long you've been a partner.

Usually do straight LEs but will do a DPE if replacing a one-sided epidural, trying to get a multip quickly comfortable, or placing an epidural I think will be difficult and want confirmation that I'm in and won't have to come back to replace it. Anecdotally, it sets up faster than a straight LE...

I've also seen that video. If it's a broken hip, we'll stun with propofol and turn to the operative/broken side for a hyperbaric spinal and leave them in that position for a few minutes after the block is in. Works great. Isobaric works, too, since that's what I used in residency.

Spinal with 1.2-1.4 mL of hyperbaric bupi +/- fentanyl. Low-dose propofol vs. ketafol depending on how bad the back pain and OSA are.

Would probably be difficult to get de-identified data, but our population is on the older (50-90 years old) and heavier side (mostly BMI 30-40, up to 50s-60). Total and uni knees and hip arthroplasties with fair number of hip fractures. We keep the table flat and usually dose 1.2-1.4 mL (some go...

We do a decent number of hips, knees, and urologic procedures with hyperbaric bupi spinals and don't flex the hips or knees once supine.

There's a section on emergency management here: Managing Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs) During Perioperative Care - Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

Recent UCLA grad, and I can also attest to averaging 50s a week and great training dealing with sick patients. Only went over 70 hours a handful of weeks during residency, mainly ICU rotations. Overall good work/life balance, happy residents, and collegial/friendly relationship with attendings...

Think we got $500-1000 a year based on ITE performance, and the money rolled over. Almost all of it went to various test and license fees, question bank subscription, and an e-book or two.

As mentioned above, read House of God. For medicine stuff, Marino's ICU Book, M&M, and Baby Miller are all good (preferred M&M). For basic finance, pick up the White Coat Investor guide or any one of the recommended books on Jim Dahle's website. You can put all of these on your electronic...

Having taught science in an underserved, inner-city high school for two years, I at least began to see the myriad challenges that teachers and students face. There's the difference in pay and respect the teaching profession receives in our country versus others; it's hard to recruit top talent...

Would second ACCRAC podcast for driving and running but personally preferred saving TrueLearn until after I'd read a decent chunk of Morgan & Mikhail, Barash, or other text of choice, then start doing questions a few months out from the ITE. Also, for daily questions and weekly short "videos"...