Me: any other questions?
Patient/ family: food is cold, room is hot, I need more blankets, I dont like sound of alarms, We need more support at home, can you call my sons finace she is a PA.
Like brotha, stick to medical questions
Or is this just my copium….hospitalists still got to work half the weekends, half the holidays forever…but without the nice car and big house the surgeons got
If you work 7 days then you have a 7 day break, wouldnt you consider this a great lifestyle? Sure you work many hours when your on, but your home by 7pm. You can take a mini vacation when ever you want. You can go camping for three days then visit your relatives. Literally no other job can do this.
Are you guys seeing more of this? I received a lengthy admission request text page tonight that was obviously written using AI. It was painful and long to read.
Instead of “cellulitis, failed outpatient antibiotics” or “please call me to discuss requested admission for cellulitis” we get things like “The continued clinical progression represents failure of outpatient management and requires escalation to parenteral antibiotics with close monitoring for response and further extension of infection despite completion of sequential antibiotic therapy” and “Although they are currently afebrile, hemodynamically stable, and without sepsis or crepitus, these reassuring findings do not mitigate the documented progression despite oral therapy.”
Even worse, when I called the ED doc, he couldn’t even tell me the correct antibiotics he had been on, and after consulting on the guy and doing a thorough history, he did not in fact meet admission criteria and I discharged him home. Sigh.
I’m currently a PGY-3 internal medicine resident looking for a daytime hospitalist position in the central U.S. after graduation.
Has anyone worked with US Acute Care Solutions (USACS) in this region? I’d appreciate hearing about your experience with workload, scheduling, compensation, benefits, and overall job satisfaction.
More generally, what base salary or hourly rate should a new graduate expect for a daytime, 7-on/7-off hospitalist position in the central U.S.? My preference is a closed ICU with no required procedures, codes, or rapid responses.
What would you consider a competitive package, and what should I look out for before accepting my first job?(No visa required)