Recent content by laserbeam

Is there physician oversupply in general or just EM physician? I am in hospital medicine, it appears at least there is no shortage of us :-(

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ascension-outsource-private-equity-chicago/711372/ This does not feel good about hospitalist job market and career outlook.

Thanks for the link. I suppose the “Internal Medicine” mentioned in the report includes hospital medicine?

Agree with everything, except for the part with celebrity - no celebrity patients for me, please.

Glad to know that things worked out well for your neighbor. I suppose this would work if: 1. Insurance/Medicare is very willing to pay for the expenses and even rewards such programs generously. 2. There is an oversupply of healthcare workers (physicians, APPs, nurses, MAs) in the area, Boston?

https://www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/711031/home-hospital-physician-for-hybrid-work-model-full-time-part-time-and-moonlighting-opportunities/?TrackID=142977&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DateUnknown&BatchID=4378&JobAlertId=1692710 Saw this job ads today. It is a hospitalist...

THIS, and at some point in your life, you may not want to have patients either, the less the merrier, the shorter encounter the merrier......

Looks like working as a hospitalist in a tertiary center is not much fun. I worked in two community hospitals as a hospitalist, one is a big hospital, another one is a community hospital affiliated with big name major academic center. Almost all specialists in these places are easily...

That sounds like low self esteem.....

Per Society of Hospital Medicine State of Hospital Medicine Report in 2016, median collection for professional charges is $213253 which is lower than what we earn, median amount of financial support per FTE physician is $157535, 96.3% of hospital medicine groups receive financial support in...

I work as a hospitalist employed by the hospital which is a large health system. The management is also corporate management. It is unfortunate that hospitalists can only be employees, no matter by who, as our billing is not sufficient to support ourselves. There is a big consolidation going...

Agree with this. It is hard to count on successful private practice, endo or rheum - that has some luck component inside. The abundance of hospitalist shifts now is more real, plus the flexibility of scheduling, flexibility of workflow.....

Hospitalists worth more than we can bill. For most "CHF exacerbation", "acute hypoxic and hypercapneic respiratory failure", "severe sepsis/septic shock" we document, hospitals are making money. And there are more cases of hypertensive urgency/emergency, pneumonia, COPD exacerbation, DKA than...

I am thinking about looking for a VA position. I thought that malpractice lawsuit risk would be lower because of sovereign immunity. However my colleague tells me that it is equally stressful. Although we do not have to pay out of our own malpractice insurance, we still have to prepare to defend...

I do not understand why people say the hospitalist job sucks. It is highly doable, for most IM graduates. It does require good fund of knowledge, analytical skill and work efficiency be feel comfortable and confident. After the initial learning phase, the rest is just routine work. I am in a...