Post by wvumaryjane on Mar 8, 2008 11:57:34 GMT -5
Two years ago two new neurologists came into our hospital. One would think this would be beneficial for our thriving full service neurodiagnostics department. However, the exact opposite has occurred.
The new young money hungry, overambitios pestilences have come in and destroyed our department with the fury of a hurricane. they were not satisfied with 200 dollar reading fees x about 3000 studies annually. The money is in the technical fee which ranges from 650 dollars to 1500 dollars per study pending on the study.. They bought their own equipment, wooed Mike away and eventually Terri, who I trained.
Samantha left (good ridance on that I say) so now its me and Alan my supervisor with 30 years or Neurodiagnostic experience. We've been reduced to doing the very episodic evoked potentials. Episodic OR monitoring and in patient EEG.
in the past month, we've been informed that we're losing the corner penthouse suite of Tower 3. The suite that we designed to perfectly facilitate the spectrum of testing we offer. We picked the colorschemes from the tile to the cabnets and we designed the floor plan.
We are being moved to the hospital proper, and I don't mind that at all.. we should be in the hospital.. And the location is actually good,, its on the second floor where the bulk ofour patients are. However.. its a place that used to be peri op. Its perfect for peri op. but it functionally is NOT for what we do.. Major renovations need to take place for it to work, but they aren't going to renovate.. they painted the area.. and we didn't even get to pick the color..
Oh and Did I mention that we're sharing a space with other departments and people we don't realy like? No windows.. not one.. its completely internal..
Oh.. and there are days that we have NOTHING to do.. NOThING at all.. and so I leave early.. but If I have to come back late in the afternoon before 5.. I don't get call back pay.. I have to be on call but I'm not getting call pay. Though the hospital strongly desires that I flex out when I'm not busy.
I have bent and bent and bent.. i'm about ready to break.
The new young money hungry, overambitios pestilences have come in and destroyed our department with the fury of a hurricane. they were not satisfied with 200 dollar reading fees x about 3000 studies annually. The money is in the technical fee which ranges from 650 dollars to 1500 dollars per study pending on the study.. They bought their own equipment, wooed Mike away and eventually Terri, who I trained.
Samantha left (good ridance on that I say) so now its me and Alan my supervisor with 30 years or Neurodiagnostic experience. We've been reduced to doing the very episodic evoked potentials. Episodic OR monitoring and in patient EEG.
in the past month, we've been informed that we're losing the corner penthouse suite of Tower 3. The suite that we designed to perfectly facilitate the spectrum of testing we offer. We picked the colorschemes from the tile to the cabnets and we designed the floor plan.
We are being moved to the hospital proper, and I don't mind that at all.. we should be in the hospital.. And the location is actually good,, its on the second floor where the bulk ofour patients are. However.. its a place that used to be peri op. Its perfect for peri op. but it functionally is NOT for what we do.. Major renovations need to take place for it to work, but they aren't going to renovate.. they painted the area.. and we didn't even get to pick the color..
Oh and Did I mention that we're sharing a space with other departments and people we don't realy like? No windows.. not one.. its completely internal..
Oh.. and there are days that we have NOTHING to do.. NOThING at all.. and so I leave early.. but If I have to come back late in the afternoon before 5.. I don't get call back pay.. I have to be on call but I'm not getting call pay. Though the hospital strongly desires that I flex out when I'm not busy.
I have bent and bent and bent.. i'm about ready to break.
