Comments on: New York EM Docs Sacked http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Sat, 12 May 2012 12:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html/comment-page-1#comment-2982 GruntDoc Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:13:11 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html#comment-2982 <strong>ER Doctors will Not be Fired</strong> Nassau ER Doctors will Not be Fired The emergency room doctors at the Nassau University Medical Center will not be fired. The head of the medical center backed away Monday from a plan to replace most of the emergency room... ER Doctors will Not be Fired

Nassau ER Doctors will Not be Fired The emergency room doctors at the Nassau University Medical Center will not be fired. The head of the medical center backed away Monday from a plan to replace most of the emergency room…

]]> By: jerry http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html/comment-page-1#comment-2981 jerry Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:38:00 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html#comment-2981 I read it as the opposite of the beginning of an era of doctors as employess. As I read it they are looking to BRING in and ED group to work under a contract with the hospital. I am a fairly recent board certified EM graduate that totally disagrees with the blanket firing of a group such as this. My question with their current system is who decides where in the ED the crazy bipolar pregnant 15 year old patient complaining of chest pain and RLQ pain gets sent to in the department, or do they get to rotate whrough all six areas of the department? I read it as the opposite of the beginning of an era of doctors as employess. As I read it they are looking to BRING in and ED group to work under a contract with the hospital.

I am a fairly recent board certified EM graduate that totally disagrees with the blanket firing of a group such as this.

My question with their current system is who decides where in the ED the crazy bipolar pregnant 15 year old patient complaining of chest pain and RLQ pain gets sent to in the department, or do they get to rotate whrough all six areas of the department?

]]> By: Greg P http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html/comment-page-1#comment-2980 Greg P Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:31:16 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2005/11/new-york-em-docs-sacked.html#comment-2980 To some extent, this is the beginning of the new era of doctors as employees, where more doctors are giving up their autonomy in favor of a salary, no practice business hassles, etc. We will probably see a gradual disappearance of ED docs who have their own practice and work under a contract with an ED. To some extent, this is the beginning of the new era of doctors as employees, where more doctors are giving up their autonomy in favor of a salary, no practice business hassles, etc.
We will probably see a gradual disappearance of ED docs who have their own practice and work under a contract with an ED.

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