Backup Call Pay

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Just back from NYC - September 11 remembrances with some of NY's bravest very moving.

Call pay - kinda like pirate's ranson for doing what we all signed on to do but now want more.  There are hospitals around here that are paying their general surgeons $1,000 and up to take trauma call, and their neurosurgeons $4,000 a night!!!  And that isn't IN-HOUSE call.  That is call from the comforts of their homes, where they review films on the PACS and direct their residents or better their PA-C's when to put in bolts.......There are also ENT, ortho, vascular and OMFS folks who are taking the system as well.

It is an embarrassment, as far as I am concerned.  If you want to be a professional that charges by the hour, be a lawyer.  Clearly they are far more valuable that most of us anyway.................UGH!

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:28 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Backup Call Pay

Some discussions are occurring regarding payment to surgery specialist who  
are "on call"   I would ask anyone who might wish to share with this  list 
server what the policy is in your local.   It does not need to be  for your 
hospital or yourself.     I would ask for three  different figures, if you 
can give it that way.
 
 
                REQUIRED  TO BE IN HOSPITAL    Carry beeper at  home on 
call     Per hour  called in 
Trauma 
Critical Care
General Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Vascular Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Neurosurgery
Ophthalmology
Orthopedic Surgery
ENT
Plastic Surgery
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