ER doctor looking to leave ER

[Anonymous]

Why can't you start your own practice? Just to concierge medicine. Contract out billing, take on number of clients you can handle. Predictive income. Slowly bring on others, reduce your hours, take a cut of everyone else's.

[Anonymous]

Locus 4 months a year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Urgent care seems like a good transition and I bet they'd be happy to have somone with your experience. Kinda like an ER but with limited hours and also limited scope of services. I assume it pays less though.

Does urgent care even staff doctors anymore.?

Every time we go we get a NP or PA, maybe there is on doctor overseeing?

But anything remotely complicated gets sent to ER, so no doc may b needed?

I m a physician and I can tell you that when you have NP or PA saw you and a doctor never saw you , in the same visit, that s in reality, no doctor really overseeing you. It s just NP and PA.

The hospital system or the NP PA didn’t want to involve the doc because it take them more time and or they don’t know what they don’t know.

Could someone translate this gibberish, for those of us who didn't go to medical school but wasted our time on frivolous pursuits, such as learning to put together a coherent sentence?

NP (new poster) here.

NP refers to Nurse Practitioner. PA refers to Physician Assistant. They have medical training, but are not MDs, DOs, etc. NPs and PAs are supposed to work under the supervision of an MD.

My guess of "they don't know what they don't know" means the NP, PA doesn't realize what they're missing on the patient's symptoms and thus, they don't seek the MD's comments.

[Anonymous]

Maybe teach at a medical school ? (Here in the US or in the Caribbean.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you start your own practice? Just to concierge medicine. Contract out billing, take on number of clients you can handle. Predictive income. Slowly bring on others, reduce your hours, take a cut of everyone else's.

Because they aren’t internal medicine or family medicine. Start a practice in what? A private ER?

[Anonymous]

Is palliative care an option?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Urgent care.

University health system as a doctor or administrator.

Big pharma (although I have friends with PhDs and MDs who have been laid off on the last 1-3 years)

Telehealth

If you’re willing to travel and want a real change Doctors Without Borders. You could do this for 6-12 months then look into being a Health Advisor/ Technical expert for a non profit. When I worked in emergency response it was so difficult to get excellent health technical people.

Which is interesting because I have a friend with an undergrad degree in biology from a mediocre college who has been making $$$$ for 20 yrs.

Cheerleader in sales right?