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Mon Sep 14 13:40:08 BST 2009

I DO NOT agree with call pay for any physician.  We all have hospital PRIVILEGES, and with those privileges come OBLIGATIONS. IMHO, taking call is just one of the obligations that should be pay-back for the privileges.  Teaching our up-coming colleagues that every test ordered by them should (1) be reviewed/examined by them personally, and (2) should be ordered knowing that the results WILL affect subsequent management is just another obligation that we seem to have forgotten about.

OK, I will shut up now and yield my soap box to Dr. Mattox!

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Ante Coric
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:43 AM
To: Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]
Subject: Re: Backup Call Pay

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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