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Wed May 4 03:29:28 BST 2005

In a message dated 5/3/2005 7:01:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ecthompson at msn.com writes:

I'm not  sure where to start...I know where to start in the front office.
Has one  administrator cut their salary because of decreased reimbursement?
A  hospital administrator in a large hospital who operates on no one  and
generates no money get paid on average how much?  How many nights  of
in-house call do they take?

Ok, let's look at it another way,  trauma surgeons are as well trained as if
not more so than any other  surgeon in the hospital (plastic, ENT, etc.)
Yet, when I was looking at the  list of the 50 most expensive houses in
Dallas there was an ENT and 3  plastic surgeons on the list but no trauma
surgeons.  

When a  trauma surgeon signs a contract he/she needs to know what they are
signing  then honor that contract knowing that hospitals and department
chairman  have a tendency to promise one thing but deliver another with
almost no  consequences. On the other hand, when trauma surgeons are asked to
do more  than is in their contract they should not do it for free.  Free sets
a  bad trend.  The reason that reimbursement is so crazy in part it  is
because our fore-fathers did so much for FREE.   

Well said.
We need to be paid for what we do and our availability.  One must not  
confuse the resident work hour restrictions with my hours, which are much more  than 
80.

john porter
university of arizona

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