Recent content by EdibleEgg

Where does the 10 year contract come from? Are you saying someone offered you 150K loan forgiveness for signing a 10 year contract? If that's the case.... RUN away.

Well, that saddens me too.

I don't know that anyone really practices "full scope" family medicine. There are a few people I know well that come close, but it would be difficult to literally do everything that falls under the scope of a family physician. The flexibility of the well trained generalist is one of the...

That saddens me.

As blue dog said, Medicare pays the same regardless of specialty. Commercial insurers are different, but in my neck of the woods, they are moving more in line with medicare. Its not my cup of tea, but I know several family docs that read ECHO's. There are really few procedures out of the...

That's normal. It took about six months for me, then the flood gates opened. In my opinion, advertising in the newspaper, radio, etc is useless. Word of mouth really builds a practice. Take any reasonable opportunity to do some moonlighting; the exposure to patients is much more valuable...

There are lots of options depending on your dedication to endoscopy. Generally, you need to choose a residency with endoscopy friendly attendings. Then work your butt off to get as many cases as possible during residency. Join the AAPCE. Credentialling will be difficult without a minimum of...

My former partner and I just parted ways over this issue. I'm not sure there is a right and a wrong answer. She was very worried about the future of medicine, both her personal income and the welfare of our ten employees. She sought safety in employment, and I joined one of the few remaining...

I don't see rural EM closing as an option for fm grads closing any time soon. Rural EM is just different. I can't see many EM guys going to locations with hospitalist coverage like Medstar describes. There just aren't that many dual boarded docs out there, and most of them are going to practice...

Yes, there will be jobs, especially for those of us that have a passion for this. There certainly no shortage now. I did a rural fellowship not EM. I still practice full scope family medicine with the exception of OB, but the ED has become an increasingly large part of what I do over the...

I'm not going to argue that point, but you are not the average PA.

I don't know that anyone has those statistics. There are a relatively small number of physicians completing rural/EM fellowships every year. We are a relatively tight knit group. Of the 6-7 that stay in touch, NONE of us are in urban areas. You said the only reason anyone completes the...

Sorry, but I just don't believe you. You are also wrong that the only reason to people choose to do the EM fellowship is as a back door to competing with you. Rural medicine is different, training for that difference is good for patients and not dishonest. Thanks for the lesson bro, but...

You probably could complete residency in a year if there was no value in any other rotation. If heart failure was a totally different entity once it crossed the threshold of the emergency department, you might be right. You cant completely devalue anything other than EM rotations. It's...