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I joined this forum yesterday after reading some of the threads and finding it interesting reading material as I have considered medical school myself. not sure if I will ever go, but am interested in maybe becoming a doctor, especially cardiology and emergency medicine. What surprised me the most after reading more reading here today is the level of animosity towards PAs and NPs. I have been working in and around NYC for almost a decade as a PA and rarely if ever encountered such hostile physicians towards mid level providers.
Anyways, I wanted to voice my opinion after reading all the hateful comments towards PAs here and that is we are underpaid and under respected for our work. The other day I saw 41 patients in a day in a primary care setting and brought home around $350 for the shift. One doctor I worked for used to go to the casino while I saw all his patients for $50 a hour or so. I figured I was paying for his blackjack habit as easily making him $300 a hour after paying me. he was such a degenerate gambler he ended up having to close his practice and also was investigated for fraud. But I was not involved in that, he was double billing I heard... I wonder if the doctor who works opposite shifts of me feels like he dislikes PAs, gloats over the double salary he earns, or genuinely respects the fact that PAs care for many of the patients at the urgent care practice with no problems in past several years Ive been here at least? Shouldn't pay go up some more with time or is like 100-120k the max a PA will be earning? My brother does accounting after a masters degree and is earning around 250k after 10 years, but im still around 115K in medical work? So is that the max we deserve to make even with learning new skills, treating ALL the patients alone, and years of intense training with continuous learning for next decade? Am I just not negotiating hard enough?
Anyways, I wanted to voice my opinion after reading all the hateful comments towards PAs here and that is we are underpaid and under respected for our work. The other day I saw 41 patients in a day in a primary care setting and brought home around $350 for the shift. One doctor I worked for used to go to the casino while I saw all his patients for $50 a hour or so. I figured I was paying for his blackjack habit as easily making him $300 a hour after paying me. he was such a degenerate gambler he ended up having to close his practice and also was investigated for fraud. But I was not involved in that, he was double billing I heard... I wonder if the doctor who works opposite shifts of me feels like he dislikes PAs, gloats over the double salary he earns, or genuinely respects the fact that PAs care for many of the patients at the urgent care practice with no problems in past several years Ive been here at least? Shouldn't pay go up some more with time or is like 100-120k the max a PA will be earning? My brother does accounting after a masters degree and is earning around 250k after 10 years, but im still around 115K in medical work? So is that the max we deserve to make even with learning new skills, treating ALL the patients alone, and years of intense training with continuous learning for next decade? Am I just not negotiating hard enough?