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Mon Sep 14 12:43:16 BST 2009

How about anesthesia folks? and if they are also CCM fellows?

Ante

2009/9/14 Gross, Ronald <Ronald.Gross at baystatehealth.org>

> 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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