Recent content by JumpingLumberjacksofMaine

While I appreciate your comments/viewpoint, there's a difference between just throwing hater-ade out of envy and offering nuanced, constructive criticisms. This is a new field and a new way of practicing. There are systemic issues when you roll out any innovation. Unfortunately, the systems...

300/study, with a tech???? Wow! Nice work!! Hopefully everybody learns from my stupidity. As an employed doc I only thought in terms of wRVU, not dollars. It was only after a few years that I thought to ask why private practice docs were so eager to do EMG's when I was doing EMG's at a...

If you still need this, happy to talk about IME.

Ditto; take mine along with general neurology re-cert in May; thanks to all who have already contributed.

Here's my understanding of tele. 1) National companies that have tons of overhead from broad credentialling and thus need to have people see a ton of volume to break even (which angers hospitalists/hospitals because of the template-based stroke workup for everyone model). Sometimes there's a...

This is 2015-2019 data; I don't think it's changed that much for EMG though. If you do an hour/study without tech, definitely not worth it UNLESS you keep some of the technical component (which is pretty rare in employed settings). The professional component of the RVU's means that you are...

@dozitgetchahi Yes, personally I wouldn't do it, tempting as it is. The unfortunate part is that the survey companies then seem to actively screen for folks who are less honest. On the occasions I shaded my patient numbers up a bit, I'd get the interview, though I tried to stay within reason...

#1) Thanks--I feel like a ***** for not noticing that you could change to just search this forum--I knew it could be done but just missed that button when I was looking. #2) To answer your other question--I don't know if it's need vs paranoia--I'm there to help my mother, but I also don't pry...

Hi, apologies (I did search a bit--but haven't figured out how to restrict searches to the peds forums). My mother--a pediatrician--is partially retired and thinking of doing locums at a nearby hospital. I do mainly locums but in neurology, so while I'm very concerned to protect my mother from...

On a slightly more constructive note, IME Is fair paying, especially if you're efficient at flipping through mammoth stacks of patient records (make sure your contract specifies you get paid per pages reviewed). The nice parts are the ease of scheduling--you can shoehorn a day or two in on the...

I had a colleague who earned 60k/year from surveys while fully employed. Having seen him work, I 100% believe it. Dude is my friend, but it's a bit of a dirtbag strategy. The key is to put in whatever numbers needed in the screening questions--e.g., SMA? Sure, I've got 20 cases in my...

I wonder if this is a mutual friend. In the Carolinas by any chance?

I know, man. Travel sucks, hotel/airline miles aside. Long-term I think I can do 1 week away (at least till my kids get old enough they don't want to hang out with me anyways). Big issue w/ locums for me is that it's good pay for a week, then I'm twiddling thumbs for 3 weeks. --Re...

Thank you for the feedback--I think you're kinda right but I kinda disagree too. IDK about a lot of work. Some work perhaps? IMO there are many ways to skin a cat. --If going the locums route: At the very least's a point of leverage if there's enough semi-mobile neurologists that you can...

BTW there's a database on Facebook's Physician side gigs of locums and other job rates---...