The MGMA compensation report dropped recently where apparently psychiatry salaries saw the greatest gain at 8.7%. This contrasts with the Medscape survey earlier this year that reported a 3% decrease in psychiatry salaries. Image below is from Marit, where I'm told you can access the MGMA data if you share your salary.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan recently announced a slash to reimbursement for billing by supervised clinicians, which in Michigan includes NP's. Article on the topic featuring some upset NP's who claim the change will limit access to care.
Graduating from a university program filled with academic lifer attendings that did little to shepherd its residents into the non-academic job market. Anyone else experience this/are community programs better at this?
I'm planning to start a new job at a hospital in Palos Heights this fall and am hoping to live in a nearby suburb. I'm totally unfamiliar with the southwest/west suburbs but I'm told that some of my future co-workers live in Naperville and Orland Park, and apparently some even commute from the city. I'm mostly a homebody outside of work so I'm not looking for an outdoorsy or active kind of area, but I do have many friends throughout Chicagoland so would like to have easy access to highways and the Metra.
Right now I'm thinking of renting for a year to get a feel for the area before committing to buying a place if I decide to stay long-term. I'm looking at a few apartment complexes in Orland Park that would make for around a 15-minute commute which I like. Would Orland Park be a good place to start for someone new to the area?
Hi all! I plan on going to Japan for the first time this July. I see that most itineraries stick to the major tourist cities like Tokyo and Kyoto, but I'm strongly considering spending most of the trip in Hokkaido because I've been intrigued by the island for years for no good reason, I love nature and remote countrysides, and the weather there is apparently more tolerable than Honshu in the summer.
However, I'm worried that I'll miss out on what I assume is the "quintessential" experience of Japan by not going the classic "Golden Route." I'm sure I'll return to Japan sometime in the future, hopefully during a time of year when the weather is better, but would it be unwise to trail off the beaten path?
I've been looking through the recent Medscape data and found that psychiatry ranked number 2 for physicians who feel optimistic about their specialty's long-term future and in the top 4 for short-term future. Psychiatry also ranks in the bottom 5 for pessimism about long-term future. Needless to say that this doesn't jibe with this sub's pity parade, which more likely is just another expression of negativity bias on social media.
EDIT: Images.
