Should Rad Oncs be allowed to work past age 50?

[jondunn]

It's time for CMS to shut this **** down

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[medgator]

It's time for CMS to shut this **** down

50? Ok bro 🙄

Let's see if you're even old enough to understand this gif

 

[TheWallnerus]

Only if they sign contracts promising lifetime Evicore non employment. And sell their linac to a new grad, if they own one.

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

My goal is to be out at 50 or part time. Maybe buy a little place in Bluffton, SC.

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

Tbh, the right thing is for all of us to do is work at evicore until they fire us.

 

[RSAOaky]

My goal is to be out at 50 or part time. Maybe buy a little place in Bluffton, SC.

This is the way

 

[deleted1111261]

Part time by 50, that is the goal. If for some reason job market perks up (seems to be a signal - I see more $2000 locums then before), then part time or locums will be nice way to fade out

 

[medgator]

Realistically, if you could make the age 70, it would be a huge service to the field and much more viable/common sense to do than 50 @jondunn

There are many septuagenarians out there still practicing/doing locums who need to be told to hang it up

 

[Neuronix]

Yeah 50 is a little crazy. 65-70 maybe.

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

Golf, Cracker Barrel, beaches, and P2Ps

 

[medgator]

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Golf, Cracker Barrel, beaches, and P2Ps

Contact Us| Office Locations | eviCore. The mothership. Had no idea it was next to the montage palmetto bluff.

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

Contact Us| Office Locations | eviCore. The mothership. Had no idea it was next to the montage palmetto bluff.

Yes, very strange to be walking along the beach there, look inland, and see this:

Not your typical lowlands topography.

 

[madchemist89]

"They were once men; great kings of men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgûl: Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They will never stop hunting you."

 

[Wildcat321]

Contact Us| Office Locations | eviCore. The mothership. Had no idea it was next to the montage palmetto bluff.

Going to the dark side could be tempting if they offered room and board at the Montage.

 

[w00tz]

Thought you could work for evicore anywhere. Hear kids crying, dogs barking, microwaves beeping, toilets flushing in the background on P2P calls all the time

 

[deleted1111261]

Montage is sick!

 

[TheWallnerus]

Thought you could work for evicore anywhere. Hear kids crying, dogs barking, microwaves beeping, toilets flushing in the background on P2P calls all the time

Evicore won't hire you as an "assistant medical director" (AMD) unless you have nice reliable broadband internet at home. The P2P calls are all routed across the Evicore network into Cisco network connected telephony devices inside each P2P person's house. You get a laptop, headset, Cisco phone, and special Cisco routing device which puts your Evicore equipment across a secure VPN that you can quite literally access anywhere on the planet with an internet connection that's at least 20 Mbps up/down.

 

[Gfunk6]

If SDN Rad Onc is willing to pool their money to make me a nice pension fund, I will gladly hand over my job in 4 years

 

[w00tz]

Part time by 50, that is the goal. If for some reason job market perks up (seems to be a signal - I see more $2000 locums then before), then part time or locums will be nice way to fade out

The locums staffing companies have been relentless this week - at least 1-2 phone calls, texts and emails every day this week. Wonder if locums are more in demand now...

 

[medgator]

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The locums staffing companies have been relentless this week - at least 1-2 phone calls, texts and emails every day this week. Wonder if locums are more in demand now...

Yep. Goes with the job market being (relatively) better this year as well compared to the disaster during peak covid

 

[seper]

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Yep. Goes with the job market being (relatively) better this year as well compared to the disaster during peak covid

If that is the case (I'm not sure), increased locum demand may just mean people starting to go to conferences and vacations again

 

[deleted1111261]

If that is the case (I'm not sure), increased locum demand may just mean people starting to go to conferences and vacations again

Relentless and prices going up. Got a bunch for >$2000 recently

 

[radoncftw]

I am getting a lot more requests for locums coverage. Still in training

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

I am getting a lot more requests for locums coverage. Still in training

I'd rather have someone in training locums for me

 

[Lamount]

59.5 would be the soonest I retire (or whatever age one can start taking distributions from a tax-deferred retirement)

 

[jondunn]

I saw a 50 year old try to log in to Mosaiq a few weeks ago, was a sad sad sight.

Poor gal

 

[medgator]

I saw a 50 year old try to log in to Mosaiq a few weeks ago, was a sad sad sight.

Poor gal

Mosaiq is a pretty sad sight to see, any way you slice it

 

[Mandelin Rain]

59.5 would be the soonest I retire (or whatever age one can start taking distributions from a tax-deferred retirement)

La vie académique.

 

[RSAOaky]

59.5 would be the soonest I retire (or whatever age one can start taking distributions from a tax-deferred retirement)

You can withdraw roth contributions (though not gains) penalty free at any time and if you are 55 the year you quit working, you can withdraw from a 457b penalty free.

 

[fiji128]

In the US the mandatory retirement age is 65 for commercial airline pilots. I don't think this would be unreasonable hard line retirement age for clinical medicine as well. That being said, in no way do I hope to be still practicing at that age myself.

 

[jondunn]

there's at least one old old old old person still holding on to the mouse at TOPA that needs to be put out to pasture.

 

[medgator]

there's at least one old old old old person still holding on to the mouse at TOPA that needs to be put out to pasture.

 

[radoncle]

In the US the mandatory retirement age is 65 for commercial airline pilots. I don't think this would be unreasonable hard line retirement age for clinical medicine as well. That being said, in no way do I hope to be still practicing at that age myself.

Shouldn’t this apply to administers as well? Wasn’t Wally Curran basically forced to retire from Emory due to age and now he’s basically an admin at Genesis? That to me is just as bad if not worse for the field.

 

[jondunn]

Not at all. TOPA has the rep it has amongst their neighbors for a reason!

 

[OTN]

Not at all. TOPA has the rep it has amongst their neighbors for a reason!

What rep is that?

 

[SneakyBooger]

Everyone should quit today, right at this moment, regardless of age, and let the next generation have at it.

 

[medgator]

Doctor admits killing mother-of-three with botched routine procedure

Dr Isyaka Mamman, 85, previously left another patient disabled, also after botched bone marrow biopsy

www.independent.co.uk

Heme onc in UK lied about being 85 and apparently they still practice in the dark ages over there and don't send their BMBx to IR