A client of ours in Wisconsin has an URGENT need for General Surgery call coverage. 10 days a month plus one weekend per month. ASAP for 6 months. Must be board certified. Active WI license and DEA.

Please get back to me ASAP if you or anybody you know will be interested in this locum opportunity.

There are no empty seats in medical school classes and waiting lists to get in. When specialties become saturated doctors will return to general practice – or begin new careers simonizing cars.

You have no understanding of my profession, the forces at work driving reimbursment, the time or effort it takes to train.

You have not a CLUE of the demand for my services.

As the physicians in the baby boom generation retire, there will be a paucity of general surgeons to deal with the demand. This is true with almost every specialty, except maybe pediatrics.

The current job I have went vacant for a year before I filled it. There a places practically BEGGING for help.

At some point, history will see Obama as the President that returned SLAVERY to the United States!

Freddy on November 15, 2012 at 3:35 PM

Well, that would be ironic, wouldn’t it?
All the people heralding his election(and re-election) as a turning point in race relations. Not realizing that he just turned it around to go backward.

Was I prudent or a coward, I really don’t know?

talking_mouse on November 15, 2012 at 1:54 PM

An Obama supporter with a scalpel? Prudent, I’d say, given the rabid hatred shown toward anyone who is NOT an Obama-worshipper by some of his followers. I wouldn’t take the chance of something being added to my body, or missing from it, or the general chance of shoddy workmanship, especially if he is retiring, making it harder to sue his practice for malpractice.

Now, telling him after the surgery is another story. As long as you are not going to be going to him for any procedures later.

At some point, history will see Obama as the President that returned SLAVERY to the United States!

There are no empty seats in medical school classes and waiting lists to get in. When specialties become saturated doctors will return to general practice – or begin new careers simonizing cars.

plewis on November 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM

Maybe they can saturate a little my way then. As a family practice doctor there are several month long waits to get to see one of just 3 spinal orthopedic specialists in a three hour diameter. There is only a small handful of psychiatrists which means that I do the bulk of the prescriptions for psychiatric medication while my patients see psychologists (thank heavens there are a few of those) and the dermatologists have such a long waiting list that they don’t even take down names. The patients just call daily hoping there’s a cancellation.

I’ve never seen nor heard of medical specialists saturation. Or do you expect to see on Craigslist: Single White Radiologist, willing to put in long hours in the dark?

There are no empty seats in medical school classes and waiting lists to get in. When specialties become saturated doctors will return to general practice – or begin new careers simonizing cars.

plewis on November 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM

What you will see — what you are already seeing — is in a seller’s market states will compete against each other to offer doctors the best economic conditions. That doesn’t just include the market itself, but also the state’s malpractice laws and any financial aid offered by the state to help doctors pay off their student loans (Texas already does this, paying off part of the loan in exchange for a four-year contract to work in low-income urban or rural areas. Many leave after the contract is up, but those areas do have health care service, albeit inexperienced. But it’s better than no physicians, which is what low-income and rural regions of states with weak malpractice suit protection laws and no financial compensatory deals are going to face in the near future).

So, I am sitting here recovering with 12 stitches in my skull wondering if I should have said something – since this was after the election it would not have done any good. Was I prudent or a coward, I really don’t know?

He explained, that as a primary care physician, a lot more patients would have to go thru him, before they could receive specialized care – his concerns boiled down to two issues: Cut-rate reimbursement from the Government, and not being able to provide his standard of care to the overwhelming number of new patients that he’d be seeing.

Soon we won’t even have the option of going to the U.S. to pay for care, thanks to Obamacare crashing the system.

Isn’t equality wonderful! Everyone equally miserable and their health equally at risk.

Infantile socialists make me puke.

crickets.

I know a few Georgetown Med School grads, and no one they know is going into general practice. They all know the economics and they know what’s coming.

Bet they all voted for OBozo.

In fact, I don’t know why anyone would want to become a nurse or nurse practitioners? Nurses have to have liability insurance also.
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