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Feeling extra crispy this week. Working 10 shifts in 11 days because when you take a week of vacation here you don't get PTO (does anyone get PTO??) and thus have to cram all your other shifts into what's left in the month. Ridiculous. Anyway:
-Seeing more COVID, mostly in unvaccinated patients, which makes me furious that I have to be exposed to this in the setting of decreasing vaccine effectiveness, and potentially exposing my unvaccinated children to the virus
-Non-cohorting of COVID confirmed pts and suspects within the department, which makes absolutely no sense.
-Q Anon nurses posting bat **** anti vax stuff on social media
-Boomer docs making like 100k more than I do for less work cause of the ridiculous compensation structure we have here (employee model, not an SDG)
-Massive radiology/consultant delays, which makes patients crispy too - rightfully so. But why should I be the one to face the brunt of this? Get admin down here and let them get yelled at.
-Massive nursing shortage + new grad nurses + nurses can't get lines + nurses don't use ultrasound or do EJs. Insane.
-Non functional equipment (computers, otoscopes, the usual ED garbage)
-Med director never works an evening shift or a weekend. Sure, I'll just get slammed on a weekend evening shift while you chill.
I don't see a solution other than save save save and get out. I'm not doing a fellowship. My goal for 2021 is to venture into new investment areas (??real estate syndications), hope the crypto takes off, continue to shovel money into mutual funds, and not spend money on stupid stuff.
-Seeing more COVID, mostly in unvaccinated patients, which makes me furious that I have to be exposed to this in the setting of decreasing vaccine effectiveness, and potentially exposing my unvaccinated children to the virus
-Non-cohorting of COVID confirmed pts and suspects within the department, which makes absolutely no sense.
-Q Anon nurses posting bat **** anti vax stuff on social media
-Boomer docs making like 100k more than I do for less work cause of the ridiculous compensation structure we have here (employee model, not an SDG)
-Massive radiology/consultant delays, which makes patients crispy too - rightfully so. But why should I be the one to face the brunt of this? Get admin down here and let them get yelled at.
-Massive nursing shortage + new grad nurses + nurses can't get lines + nurses don't use ultrasound or do EJs. Insane.
-Non functional equipment (computers, otoscopes, the usual ED garbage)
-Med director never works an evening shift or a weekend. Sure, I'll just get slammed on a weekend evening shift while you chill.
I don't see a solution other than save save save and get out. I'm not doing a fellowship. My goal for 2021 is to venture into new investment areas (??real estate syndications), hope the crypto takes off, continue to shovel money into mutual funds, and not spend money on stupid stuff.